American Linden Author:Matthew Zapruder It is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world?the way we see it, and the way it can be imagined?with such a wise and graceful mixture of humor, loss, intelligence, wit, self-deprecation, and hope. American Linden is such a first collection. The poems in this book are valuable, even necessary. They are, in the most important s... more »ense, love poems: to people, to ideas, to feelings, and to the mind itself, which?by means of language? move with honesty, wit, and distinction among the fleeting things of this world.« less