News at Eleven: [Matthew] Zapruder seems to imagine

the poet's role to be a kind of cultural medium. In the interview with Rob McLennan linked above, Zapruder says he prefers to write in the presence of ambient sounds, and it's plausible to hear them registered in the poes. In "Andale Mono," for example, he imagines poetry, first as a light inside a closet, then as a kind of ventriloquism, and finally simply as tautology:

In the poem we want to try to set off a light each time

from Bookslut: The Pajamaist by Matthew Zapruder

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