Journal of Alta California

Father’s Little Dividend

hat dream was I born into / and what will happen / when the dreamer wakes,’’ Matthew Zapruder asks in his eloquent new collection, . It’s a cri de coeur about the times in which we live and the complex issues of patrimony, including

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