Wonder About The

Wonder About The represents Colorado stitched by threads of the water cycle, specifically the Cache la Poudre River, explored with an intimacy and depth. Cooperman’s wordcraft serves to facilitate connections, and his words work their way through all–as the water does. These words are a plow which the rain follows. –David Anthony Martin, author of The Ground Nest, Bijoux and others Mathew Cooperman’s Wonder About Thesucceeds superbly in the great challenge of eco-poetry, i.e. the question of presenting–given the claim that in writing “exposition is death”–information through poetic means. It’s clear from the prefatory “Thesis” to its closing “Whose ditches these are,” that Cooperman has personally experienced the beauties of the water systems not only of northern Colorado but by implication the whole earth. –Bill Tremblay, author of Walks Along the Ditch Wonder About The is a work of revelatory ecopoetic wonder, a deep and flowing meditation on the Poudre River bioregion and its manifold worlds. In its expansive, intricate layering of riparian scenes and life forms, oil and gas wells, echoes of songs and poems, hydrological cycles and water scarcity, this book creates resonant space for the difficult, beautiful contradictions of our ecological present. –Margaret Ronda. author of For Hunger Matthew Cooperman takes us through a panorama of the west in this deep look at the land and our inseparableness from it. Like Williams and Niedecker, he is a keen attendant to human and natural environments and assemblies. Part praise song, part history, part warning and part elegy, the poems in Wonder About The offer readers both a question and a vitally important command. –Susan Briante, author of Defacing the Monument ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), as well as Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis, 2013), Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath, 2011) and other books. A Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University, he lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang. Read more about Matthew Cooperman at: http://matthewcooperman.org