Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move

Poetry. STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK THAT DOES NOT MOVE attempts that rare "theory of everything," the implications of which are, it goes on...wave upon wave of stuff, categories, speakers, news. Employing quotation, catalogue, a roving, sometimes aerial point of view, and an ingenious use of the colon, STILL is at once a formal argument of containment, and the trajectory of twilight-modernity jacked on too much "product."

Matthew Cooperman is the author of DaZE (Salt Publishing, 2006), and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades Press, 2001), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize, as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove | Tail, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1999). A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, Cooperman teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a poetry editor of Colorado Review.