Welcome to Book Bar's official Poetry Club. This club is part book club and part workshop/writers' group, led in part by local poets. The first half of the meeting will be spent discussing the book of the month, and the second half will be spent sharing/workshopping each other's poetry (if you'd like to bring some to share - it's optional).
For April, the selected book is I Love Hearing Your Dreams by Matthew Zapruder (book description is located at the bottom of this listing).
So come out, grab a drink at our beverage bar, and join us for a lively discussion. When you purchase this club pick from us, your support will help us be here for a long time and put on more events! Purchasing options are below:
In Store: Stop by our location at 50 N. Railroad St. in Palmyra, PA!
Shipped: To purchase from Bookshop and get it delivered straight to your door, order from the following link: https://bookshop.org/a/98905/9781668059807
(If you purchase here, we will receive a percentage of this sale).
Ebook: Bookshop now offers Ebooks for indie booksellers. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/a/98905/9781668059821 (we will receive a percentage of this sale).
Audiobook: You can purchase audiobooks from us on Libro.fm. This audiobook can be easily found on our April 2025 Book Club Picks playlist here: https://libro.fm/playlists/9001?bookstore=bookbarus (we will receive a percentage of this sale)
We look forward to seeing you!
Book Description:
“Your dreams / have no hidden / agenda to be wise / they are made / to be forgotten / so something / can be known”
I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of “the last time that things were real” and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age of insomnia, where the poet is always awake “at that oddest hour / that does not end, / the crooked, unnumbered one” and the future seems to be “just the past in a suit / that will never be in style.” Yet dreams in Matthew Zapruder’s poems are also a place of possibility, of reality envisioned anew—sleep shows us not merely what the world is, but what it could be.
From a poet celebrated for his “razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture” (The New York Times), I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a startlingly beautiful and deeply vulnerable book where lives journey into a mystifying place and emerge transformed.