{"title":"Wyn Cooper","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"chaos-is-the-new-calm-book-wyn-cooper-9781934414347","title":"Chaos is the New Calm","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChaos is the New Calm\u003c\/i\u003e expands the parameters of the sonnet form, putting rhymes in unusual places, inventing new stanza structures, and addressing a variety of subject matter ranging from travelogue to inner monologue, from social commentary to solitary musing. These poems are alive with sound, rhythm, and lyric insights into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWyn Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e's poem \"Fun\" was adapted by Sheryl Crow for her hit song \"All I Wanna Do.\" He collaborates on music and spoken word with novelist Madison Smartt Bell. Cooper is co-organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. He consults for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From Verse Wisconsin Online:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"These poems move along at an energetic pace often progressing by plays on words and a kind of free association logic or, to put it another way, a sort of \"six-degrees-of-separation\" type of logic between both people and things.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744554230033,"sku":"NGR9781934414347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52345140445457,"sku":"NLS9781934414347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756385923345,"sku":"NIN9781934414347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934414344.jpg?v=1750965545"},{"product_id":"postcards-from-the-interior-book-wyn-cooper-9781929918652","title":"Postcards from the Interior","description":"Postcards from the Interior is 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.  Wyn 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395071152401,"sku":"CIN1929918658G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51058068717841,"sku":"NIN9781929918652","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52685049790737,"sku":"NLS9781929918652","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1929918658.jpg?v=1751093633"},{"product_id":"mars-poetica-book-wyn-cooper-9781945680137","title":"Mars Poetica","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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50462472274193,"sku":"CIN194568013XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053763232017,"sku":"NIN9781945680137","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52676632215825,"sku":"NLS9781945680137","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/194568013X.jpg?v=1750805052"},{"product_id":"way-back-book-wyn-cooper-9781893996038","title":"The Way Back","description":"A new collection by this Grammy-winning poet.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52678486982929,"sku":"NLS9781893996038","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781893996038.jpg?v=1762308238"},{"product_id":"unraveling-book-wyn-cooper-9781945680885","title":"The Unraveling","description":"Each of the poems in the book describes an unraveling of one kind or another: of a marriage, of a society trapped by a pandemic, of a country and a world coming undone.  Sometimes whimsical, sometimes bereft, but always honest, these poems are compressed, language-centered testaments to the difficulties of life in our time, not just here in the U.S. but wherever \"the weathervane spins in uneasy wind.\" These poems traverse the world, from Boston to Mississippi, from Scotland to France to Tuscany and beyond, to \"distant places no planes fly to.\"  There's an urgency to these poems, not only in how they depict both inner and outer worlds, but in how they're constructed-not a word is wasted, and the most urgent of these lyrics appear to rush across and down the page, their lines enjambed, their interior rhymes almost riddles, as if by rhyming they might find answers in repetition.Many of the poems are centered on human relationships both distant and close, on romantic love and how it can unexpectedly unravel, \"the smell of your perfume still in the air.\"  In the end, the real center of these poems is emotional truth, as it applies to individuals and to the population at large, and how that truth can make or break us. There's darkness here-how could there not be on a planet dissolving before our eyes-but there's also hope that humans can come together again to piece together the broken world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53478668599569,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53478668632337,"sku":"NIN9781945680885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781945680885.jpg?v=1777504189"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-wyn-cooper.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}