Matthew Zapruder and I talk about our new books on LITHUB! We wrote questions back and forth for a month or so. A really generative and fun conversation. His new book is Story of a Poem and there is a lot of overlap between our subjects. How do you say what you don’t know yet? How do we find out about who we are and what the world seems to be? Poets try. All artists perhaps try this way and that, throw away a lot, keep what feels true, and don’t always resolve the problem when opposing things feel true. Poets especially seem to move forward in this paradox-preserving way. Poets have ways of dismantling old metaphors that can rule the way we think about whole fields of knowledge and remembering to ask further questions of many varieties.