Poetry. "Joseph S. Cooper writes where the body does not exactly say yes but where it wants something else. By this I mean the bodies he is making are profoundly wild: propelled by phonetic imperatives and breaks in the deep structure that could be described as aberrant, but which I prefer to think of as delicious. What is a mouth and where is it going? I read his work as a future for the tongue, whether that's English, pre-English or the English that's dismayed and privately ashamed (in a good way) to find itself in such proximity to the teeth. I suggest wearing a gum-shield. I suggest serving Jell-O to your guests. Joseph S. Cooper is a genius and, to find out how the party really got going, I suggest you open this amazing, completely frightening book"--Bhanu Kapil.

Author City: Amherst, NY USA

Joseph S. Cooper is originally from Buffalo, New York. He is the recipient of an M.F.A. from Naropa University. His most recent publications include The American Drivel Review, Big Game Books, BlazeVox 2k6, BOMBAY GIN, Dusie Press, Hot Whiskey Magazine, Small Town, and String of Small Machines. His chapbook entitled Insuring the Wicker Man Shadow Created Delusion, co-authored with Jared Hayes, was published by Hot Whiskey Press in 2005.