HOW TO CONTINUE is a collection of poems that meditates on how we can meaningfully continue to write, create, and live. As Zapruder writes in the introduction: “Poems are my way of staying engaged with things, and the people who touched and made them. They are a way of staying alive in relation to language. And a way of remembering all that still matters, and all that must be preserved.”

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from “ELEGY FOR A SMALL METAL ARTIFACT”

why am I writing anything down,
watching men on television

discuss how many times
the world can end,

for a moment
it doesn’t matter

as long as it happens
when I am building

a tower with my son,
he tells me where I must put

the little block so tiny people
he says are us will have a place

to sit and watch the end

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Author: Matthew Zapruder
Booklet, 42 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9991646-3-6
Release Date: August 19, 2025
Publisher: The Economy Press

“Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” –Publishers Weekly

$15 

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