Matthew Zapruder Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Reading, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Reading, Reality, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

• Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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