Postcards from the Interior

By Wyn Cooper

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929918658
• ISBN13: 9781929918652
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Odysseus in the Twenty-First Century

In Wyn Cooper's Postcards from the Interior the poet/speaker as traveler becomes a 21st century Odysseus stripped of his ancient heroic accoutrements: someone made more human by his travels, someone whose hand we have shaken, someone we hope to see again after the journey is over and the traveler returns. The traveler in these poems moves from real to imaginary places finding a different truth to be told in each place. The poems are, as Andre Dubus said, "postcards from an old friend unsure if he'll ever see us again, and there's so little time and so much to capture."