Poetry. "It's as if in our still lives, in the still shots of cultural, historical and individual atomized memory, Matthew Cooperman is holding a Geiger counter, a microphone, a mixing bowl and a spatula, defying his own lines, 'we cannot sing dragging our saddles after and befores.' On a big canvas, both global and the glottal, all history and information aswirl, this book risks being courageous, even heroic, in how it works a lyric out of its rage. Matthew Cooperman is an indexical, flaneur-prone excavator. I love the anger in this book, and I like following Cooperman's miner's lamp."—Gillian Conoley

Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA

Matthew Cooperman is the author of DaZE (Salt Publishing, 2006), and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades Press, 2001), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize, as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove | Tail, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1999). A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, Cooperman teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a poetry editor of Colorado Review.

Reviews and Other Links
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Eileen Tabios @ Galatea Resurrects
interview by Hila Ratzabi @ Drunken Boat