Allan Cooper – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:36:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 The Face of Everything /store/the-face-of-everything.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-face-of-everything Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:36:06 +0000 /store/the-face-of-everything Our faces express a wide range of emotions, but with masking restrictions during Covid, we all had to learn to listen more carefully and read emotions through people’s eyes. Some […]

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]]> 91484 Waiting for the Small Ship of Desire /store/waiting-for-the-small-ship-of-desire.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=waiting-for-the-small-ship-of-desire Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:33:44 +0000 /store/waiting-for-the-small-ship-of-desire This latest collection of Cooper's poetry includes some of his most personal poems, including revelations to him after the death of his mother and sharply etched emotional memories of childhood and grandparents. It includes other verse as well inspired by Robert Bly, John Keats, and the Urdu poet Ghalib, among others.

Readers return to Allan Cooper's poems to be reminded of the quiet power of nature and how it can shape our lives and provide sustenance, vision, and even salvation when necessary. Here are poems to be read slowly and cherished.

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]]> 83961 Toward the Country of Light /store/toward-the-country-of-light.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toward-the-country-of-light Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:32:13 +0000 /store/toward-the-country-of-light.html/toward-the-country-of-light This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart. Read them individually or read them as a single long, flowing and eloquent narrative. The meditative and compassionate observations will transport the reader from the chaos of everyday life into a healing realm of possibility.

In Toward the Country of Light, the author offers open sonnets, prose poems, ghazals, small poems inspired by the Chinese and Japanese, and poems influenced by Robert Bly and Francis Ponge. As Cooper observes, "Over the years I've come to understand that the poem itself usually demands the form it takes and that language uses us for its own secret purposes."

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