Come on All You Ghosts (7 page)

Matthew Zapruder is the author of two previous collections of poetry,
American Linden
(Tupelo Press, 2002) and
The Pajamaist
(Copper Canyon Press, 2006).
The Pajamaist
was selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by
Library Journal
as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. He is also co-translator from Romanian, with historian Radu Ioanid, of
Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu
(Coffee House Press, 2008). German and Slovene-language editions of his poems have been published by Lux-books and Å erpa Editions; in 2009, Luxbooks also published a separate German-language graphic-novel version of the poem “The Pajamaist.” A collaborative book with painter Chris Uphues,
For You in Full Bloom,
was published by Pilot Books in 2009. His work has appeared in many anthologies, including
Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll; Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century; Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything; and The Best American Poetry 2009.

He has been a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas, and a recipient of a May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in San Francisco.

Books by Matthew Zapruder

Come On All You Ghosts

The Pajamaist

American Linden

Links

https://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the editors of the following publications, in which poems in this book (some in different forms) first appeared:
Agriculture Reader, Article, The Awl, Bat City Review, The Believer, Black Clock, Boston Review, Coconut, Columbia Poetry Review, CUNY GC Advocate, Dædalus, Electronic Poetry Review, Forklift Ohio, Fourteen Hills, Free Inquiry, jubilat, The Laurel Review, Lit Mob, Maggy, Mary, The Massachusetts Review, Narrative, The New York Quarterly, notnostrums, Order and Decorum, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Flash, A Public Space, Puppy-flowers, Slate, Tin House, Volt, Zyzzyva.

“Never to Return” was reprinted in
The Best American Poetry 2009,
edited by David Lehman and David Wagoner. “Sad News” appeared in
Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days,
edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker.

Several of the poems in this book first appeared in
For You in Full Bloom,
a limited-edition book from Pilot Books containing reproduc- tions of paintings by Chris Uphues. Special thanks to Chris for his paintings and his titles, as well as to Betsy Wheeler, Meghan Dewar, and Pilot Books. Thanks as well to Cindy Abramson for the use of her title “Automated Regret Machine.”

I would also like to thank the following people and institutions, whose support and help were invaluable to me as I wrote these poems: Lannan Foundation; the James Merrill House and Stonington Village Improvement Association; the Poetry Society of America; the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences; Christian Lux, Ron Winkler, Martina Hoffmann, and Luxbooks; Primož
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nik, Ana Pepelnik, and LUD Å erpa; Michael, Joseph, Jess, and everyone at Copper Canyon.

Copyright 2010 by Matthew Zapruder

All rights reserved

Cover art by Marina Hoffman

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