Cooper Dillon Books - Böcker

Gary McDowell's 2009 chapbook is a collection of construction, destruction, and how the things of this world are born and ash away. This chap has poems which originally appeared in such wonderful journals as New England Review, Anti-, Copper Nicke...

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A long-poem chapbook from the author of Harlot (No Tell Books) and a 2013 NEA Fellow in Poetry. Listen to Jill Alexander Essbaum on the December '09 edition of the Poetry Magazine Podcast. Born in Bay City, Texas, poet and editor Jill Alexander Es...

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From Jennifer L. Knox, author of Drunk by Noon & The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway: Some poets take a lot of time mucking up the surface of their poems, turning on the smoke machine, draping silk scarves over the lamps, etc. They don't want to be...

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Pretty, Rooster features original comics from Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man) and Micah Farritor (White Picket Fences & Night Trippers), with other visual stimulations by Max Xiantu. Jason Schneiderman, author of Striking Surface, writes: Yo...

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The debut collection by the legendary William Matthews, in its entirety for the first time since 1970. Careening between the bleak and utterly buoyant, the poems in Ruining the New Road offer a startling open-mouthed, and openhearted honesty that ...

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A collection to be brought into the quiet clearings, poems from Vine River Hermitage have appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Cave Wall, Guernica, Gulf Stream, Lumina, and Memorious.Enjoy "At Angles," in Issue 9.5 over at Diagram.Read the 20...

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This Kind of Knowing is built of driven lines where we explore mysterious tensions, "in the cage where the heart paces." From the very beginning, in "Caving," these poems are alive, "like something blooming,/ like somethin...

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The Book of Mankey's dramatic narratives tell the story of Les Mankey, a grief-stricken dentist who retreats to a rural cabin and encounters a collector of arcade games, a church busybody, and a girl who talks to a newt. In the legacy of epic poem...

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From Shannon Tharp: "In Shore, the world begins with 'The things that happen//before the thing/ that is going to happen.' This world's attendant language then moves outward, toward everything and somewhere, much as water and memory do. At the...

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from Tina Chang: "A fiercely feminine blood runs through these poems. Of wire, of salt, of harvest, of motherhood, of daughterhood, and all that these elements lay claim to. Gee reveals an astonishing voice that is equal parts ferocious and t...

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Transcript is an assemblage of lyrics pointed at domestic anxiety. It wends a way through American myths of familial tranquility and professional stability, while addressing the insularity and isolation that arise from artificial forms of communit...

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Mónica Gomery's Here is the Night and the Night on the Road is here! Manuel Paul López writes that it's "a vibrant collection populated with lives 'drinking carbon out of the sky.' We confront an environmental logic here where 'each day...[is...

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Fearn by Linda Dove is collection where Fear is transforming, and doesn't just become, but is a spectrum of objects, actions, and sensations. Fear is not something that's crushing a person, or destroying the world like a weapon. It is a part of na...

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As the title of this gorgeous collection suggests, Would-Land is an adventure in wordplay and the discoveries of our heart- and hearth-truths that language (in its inevitable slippage) can reveal. And the slips of both language and self are what's...

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"Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and felt your skin prickling at the base of your skull-felt like somewhere, inside the blackness above you, an unknown presence was hovering-a power? A fear?" This is a chapbook collection of poem...

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These poems engage with what it means to be an authentic human-animal: to be endangered and empowered at once, to be "harsh and golden and brave," to compassionately inhabit the complex space between the poles of this collection's title. Quicksand...

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Root Rot as a collection is a reckoning with the environment and histories, internal and external. It explores grief and loss, and that disruption spurs growth. This book closes with land acknowledgment, though these poems work as acknowledgment o...

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