About the Author :
Matthew Cooperman was born in New Haven, CT in 1964. He is author of two chapbooks, Words About James (Phylum Press, 2006) and Surge (Kent State University, 1999) as well as the full-length collection A Sacrificial Zinc, which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize (Pleiades/LSU, 2001). He currently lives in Fort Collins, CO, where he teaches at Colorado State University.
Review :
While 'Daze' delivers numerous interlocking forms and inventive substructures, it is at its most engaging when it allows one to simply stumble upon them... Such is the case with the serial poem "Channel Town", which begins with what seems to be an innocuous narrative that quickly breaks down and reforms as one progresses through its seven pages... Cooperman's sequence uses the detritus of reportage to show the mutability of language, of narrative and event, and therefore the ease with which such things can be recast as fodder for any kind of argument or action... That the poem works outside of the confines of such a reading, which is to say that it's as aesthetically interesting as it is ethically engaging, is tantamount to the success of the book as a whole. One moves through the unexpected corridors of 'Daze' not to derange the senses but to sense the world's derangement - the first and indeed most difficult step toward change. -- Noah Eli Gordon
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