A Sacrificial Zinc (Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series)

By Matthew Cooperman

A Sacrificial Zinc impels the reader on a journey into the nature of place. Written out of a vanished suburban landscape, Matthew Cooperman's book -- part navigational trope, part metaphor of embodiment -- enacts the complex weave of identity as a series of places, lovers, influences, and natural objects. The landscape itself is beautifully particularized as the desert and mountain spaces of the American West, and the flora and fauna of the Pacific Rim. From "the blue Pacific exactly the color of cold" to "the magnolia leaves of California] / in the first scuttle of fall," these lovely poems ground a journey in that "little better thing than earth."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807127337
• ISBN13: 9780807127339
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Pleiades Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I, Loser

(...) It rocks. It's brilliant and lovely and funny and crazy all at once. Cooperman writes like Whitman would write if Whitman were alive today. You just can't get much better than that. I'm amazed that this is a first book.

Matthew Cooperman Is A Swell Poet

Matthew "Coop" Cooperman's debut is gorgeously phrased, elliptically elliptical, and filled with more numinous viscera than most contemporary (yawn) poets can conjure in three books. His poetry appeals to the following tantric poetry receptacles: head, gut, heart, crotch, ear, and feet, i.e. its better than corned beef hash, skippy. I recommend this for any fan of contemporary poetry, and especially to young, aspiring poets who are not yet very good and need helpful models to teach them how to write good complete and/or broken sentences. This book is imbued with a wise spirit, linguisticly rabid numinousness, and things. Read it.