Poet and editor Matthew Zapruder’s Why Poetry is a welcome argument against the utilitarian view of reading, instilled in many of us as high school students, that often overshadows the pleasures of poetry. By subverting the view that understanding is the ne plus ultra of reading poetry, Zapruder opens the door to mystery, revels in the strangeness of language, and finds solace in the unknown, lessons that apply, of course, to so much more than lines on a page.
–Stephen Sparks, Lit Hub contributing editor
