From one of contemporary poetryâs most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions.
âYour dreams
have no hidden
agenda to be wise
they are made
to be forgotten
so something
can be knownâ
I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of âthe last time that things were realâ and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age of insomnia, where the poet is always awake âat that oddest hour / that does not end, / the crooked, unnumbered oneâ and the future seems to be âjust the past in a suit / that will never be in style.â Yet dreams in Matthew Zapruderâs poems are also a place of possibility, of reality envisioned anewâsleep shows us not merely what the world is, but what it could be.
From a poet celebrated for his ârazor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern cultureâ (The New York Times), I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a startlingly beautiful and deeply vulnerable book where lives journey into a mystifying place and emerge transformed.