Mars Poetica

Often plaintive, at times lighthearted in tone, many of the poems the book addresses the inability to deal with loss in a world gone awry, in a time in which “answers to questions/often contain no answer.” There is an elasticity of language that to conveys emotions complicated by “a speeded-up world.” Cooper’s poems both celebrate and elegize, sometimes within the same poem, to illustrating the necessity for maintaining equilibrium in an increasingly unbalanced world.