What Happened At Dinner, And After

!n these finely-wrought poems of longing and laughter, love and loss, the heart regards its seasons. Employing a reporter's keen eye and ear, Cooper enlivens his narratives of person and place with layers of telling detail-a beloved's final days spent struggling to remain close, a neighbor's wry musings on life and livestock, childhood memories that confuse, comfort or enlighten-rendering them each extraordinary yet strangely familiar. In an affectionate ode to his river town, a mist "silently sets its palm on the Delaware at dawn." In the final poem, a woman in an adjacent car at a traffic light reminds for a moment of a person once dear. "Then red became green and ... she left me the gift of watching her drive away." For these and other lingering images, I keep returning to the pleasures of this wise collection.

• | Author: Warren Cooper
• | Publisher: Blast Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 17, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 132 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0998482951
• | ISBN-13: 9780998482958