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"These quiet, clean, sharp-edged poems are populated with dangerous characters, dangerous mostly to themselves, 'who just want to have a little fun', or be loved. Wyn Cooper's poems are tight and pithy and fun." -- James Tate. "Pretty often books tell us what to think; this one says, think for yourself, it will improve your mind. In poem after poem we see an admirable restraint in pursuit of passionate investigations, we hear a steady voice whispering in our ears." -- Dara Wier.

• CONTENTS: Stable Strategies for Middle Management; Fellow Americans; Computer Friendly; The Sock Story; Coming to Terms; Lichen and Rock; Contact; What Are Friends For?; Ideologically Labile Fruit Crisp; Spring Conditions; Nirvana High; Green Fire.