The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993

by Dennis Cooper

Book Overview

With each new novel, Dennis Cooper's reputation as the most daring and distinctive writer working in America today is cemented. To anyone familiar with this writer -- whom the New York Times calls taut, chillingly ironic, the Washington Post Book World terms brilliant, and the Village Voice deems capable of religious intensity -- it will come as no surprise that before he achieved success as a novelist, Dennis Cooper was best known as a poet. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802134572
• ISBN13: 9780802134578
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Beyond graphics into brilliance

The best of coopers work is not in the novels but here in his powerful, utterly original poems and short verse pieces. Where readers might become bored or confused or unsettled at coopers run on in his long works, here is coopers intelligence in tight, detailed emotion. A perfect read.