Product Description: WINNER OF THE NEW MEASURE POETRY PRIZE | FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by JON THOMPSON | "SPOOL'S a year 'written in threes'-its three word lines forming narrow columns or perhaps threads. 'Thread' is a word Cooperman explicitly associates with the lyric here and it is also Ariadne's thread of rescue or at least return though, at times, 'the tape is/broken now so / sick and slck...read more

Contains poems which form a prospect on time - the passing of literal days, the ephemerality of the body, frangible memory, and the crisis of late modernity. This book is divided into three sections - 'view', 'ink', 'bed' - in which the poems deploy a series of odes, calendrics, personations, textual deformations and possessive identities.

Product Description: Articulating the search for a cohesive American identity, Matthew Cooperman's poetry attends to the slippery question of place: its history in personal and cultural memory and its constitution as family, nature, love and community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)