{"title":"Wyn Cooper","description":"\u003cp\u003eWyn Cooper is the author of four collections of poetry, including two from BOA Editions, \u003cem\u003ePostcards from the Interior \u003c\/em\u003e(2005), and \u003cem\u003eChaos is the New Calm\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). Cooper is also a storyteller, songwriter, and essayist. In 1993, the poem “Fun” from his first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Country of Here Below\u003c\/em\u003e (Ahsahta Press, 1987) was turned into the Grammy-winning song “All I Wanna Do” by Sheryl Crow.  Cooper currently works as an editor for both aspiring and established authors and helps run the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Vermont. For more information about Wyn Cooper, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wyncooper.com\/\"\u003ewww.wyncooper.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"postcards-from-the-interior","title":"Postcards from the Interior","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section, “Postcards from Vermont,” is composed of poems about Vermont towns and historical landmarks. The second section, “Postcards from the Interior,” stretches to include poems from far-flung places, real and imagined. Adroit at juxtaposing the exterior weather of landscapes and the interior weather of the human condition, Cooper writes poetry with the heft of a Romantic meditation and the breezy ease of contemporary song lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWyn Cooper has published three previous poetry collections. A poem from his first book was turned into lyrics for Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning song “All I Wanna Do.” He lives in Battleboro, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for Postcards from the Interior\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the intimate, coded, and revealing form of the postcard Wyn Cooper charts new realms of aesthetic, spiritual, and geographic space. He blurs the distinction between the public and private, discovering in history, the weather, favored places, and states of consciousness a wealth of imaginative possibilities. Wish you were here, these poems say in a variety of enduring ways. And you are.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Christopher Merrill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You must read \u003cem\u003ePostcards from the Interior\u003c\/em\u003e. With deceptively simple language, Wyn Cooper has given us new poems that are like urgent postcards from an old friend insure if he'll ever see us again, and there's so little time and so much to capture, not only for the capturing itself but for that elusive and essential bridge these poems build between us, a bridge we truly cannot live without. This is a triumphant book!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Andre Dubus III\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Postcards from the Interior\u003c\/em\u003e, as the title implies, is a collection of postcard poems 'sent' from varied places, and states of heart and mind. This collection, Cooper's third, balances prose poems, free verse, and formal verse. The first section, \"Postcards from Vermont,\" is composed of poems from Vermont towns and historical landmarks. The second section includes postcard poems from other settings, real and imagined. \"Wyn Cooper's superb postcard poems, deft and exemplary, say just enough, and never too much. Their clarities and their mysteries travel hand in hand, their feet raise the clean sound of gravel from the world's outer and inner roads.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jane Hirshfield\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2005\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418808709,"sku":"9781929918652","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":38546131977,"sku":"9781929918652","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/POSTCARDS_FROM.jpg?v=1527683314"},{"product_id":"chaos-is-the-new-calm","title":"Chaos Is the New Calm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChaos is the New Calm\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of sonnets and sonnet like poems, some rhymed, some  not. Starting with the idea of the sonnet as a fourteen line lyric poem, this book plays with the form, putting rhymes in unusual places, inventing new stanza forms, and addressing an unusually broad variety of subject matter. The poems range from travelogue to inner monologue, from surveys of the news, to social commentary, to solitary musing. Above all, the language of the poems is alive with sound and rhythm, with emotions that are best expressed by extremes of diction, syntax and style, without sacrificing sense. Each poem creates a lyric insight into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wise practitioner of the horizontal lyric—a lyric poem that does not rise, but rather spreads over surfaces, coloring them with its particular tincture of consciousness—Wyn Cooper explores an overlooked territory that lies between the crafty irony of Frank O'Hara and the more unalloyed sentiments of contemporary popular culture, discovering unexpected equivalencies and startling imbalances. His speaker's nonchalance—a new version of negative capability—becomes increasingly challenging as the book unfolds a universe in which, on the one hand, the ideal would be 'to be insane again\/ to dance the loud night away,\/ the crowd on X, a single sway,' and on the other, reality demands that you 'Speak now or forever\/ hold your hat in your hand.'\"     \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                                                                                                                  —T.R. Hummer  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In his new book, Wyn Cooper offers plain-spoken poems remarkable for their subtle echoes and balance of cultural sophistication and bare, formal construction. In these poems, the human condition is an infernal condition where the restlessness of the spirit and the intellect is only cooled by a steady, meditative gaze at our lives, that is then offered up as a distinctive sound that sings our beauty.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                                                                                                              —Major Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChaos Is the New Calm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChaos is the new calm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eviolence the new balm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto be spread on lips\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eunused to a kiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeft is the new right\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eas I brace for a fight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewith a man who stands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eon his remaining hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFetid harbor harbor me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003euntil someone is free\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto drive me away\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom what happened today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon’t strand me standing here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you leave, leave beer.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable editions:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: $16.00\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420064197,"sku":"9781934414347","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/CHAOS_IS_THE_NEW_CALM.jpg?v=1527683198"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Cooper--Wyn.jpeg?v=1449014917","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/wyn-cooper.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}