
Waiting for the Small Ship of Desire
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2020
- Category
- Death
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989725016
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989725023
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
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.
About the author
Allan Cooper has published a dozen books of poetry, including, The Alma Elegies, Gabriel’s Wing and Singing the Flowers Open. He has twice won the Alfred G. Bailey Award for poetry and received the Peter Gzowski Award in 1994. He is the founder of Owls Head Press and has been the editor of the intermittently-published literary journal Germination since 1982, when he took it over from Harry Thurston. Cooper is also a songwriter and performer. His recent musical projects include Rosedale and Songs for a Broken World. He lives in Alma, New Brunswick.