Full Description
In Mars Poetica, Wyn Cooper explores the conscious and unconscious ways we comprehend both the world around us and the one inside. From subjects like fashion, film, music, and painting, to more solemn and universal themes such as desire, anxiety, and loss, Cooper shows how such disparate topics can mirror each other in ways that help us to illuminate our lives. Employing various styles, forms, and sensibilities, Cooper's poems both celebrate and mourn, as a means of illustrating the necessity for maintaining equilibrium in an increasingly unbalanced world.
Contents
Contents
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Mars Poetica "
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The Kind of Rain 8
This Lightness
Plaza de Toros
Viral
Movement
Lifeboat
This Train
The Next New Thing 15
Rosemary's Babies 16
Angels
My Idea
What I Might Have Done 19
II
How Silent the Trees 21
Hurricane
Pity
Quake
Pulse
Drummer
Sort it Out
Mixup at the Speakeasy 28
Her Measured Fall 29
Gravity
Counting
The Loneliest Road in America 32
III
Collected Works 34
Needles and Haste 35
Vectors
Gunfire
Intense
Death of the Cool 39
Tread Lightly
Harvest Moon
Trapped in a Decade Long Gone 42
She Erased His Mouth 43
Alaska
Pirated
Debris
IV
Abstraction
Drinking the Stars 49
Menu
Parade
Three Loves
Flow
Belief
The Watcher
Documents
Film
Starboard
The Road Ends Here 59
Acknowledgments 60
Thank You
About the Author 62
