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Cooper
Esteban's
poetry has appeared in The Quarterly, Fine Madness, Chelsea,
and Octavo. His first collection,
Jove
Protected by Geese, emphasizes the range of his abilities, from
the more traditional, sonnet inspired poems in the first half of the
book, to the epigraph length modernisms in the second. Available
with elimae books, this debut "fills
a gap in American poetry left empty in the second half of the twentieth
century and filled otherwise only by the likes of Jack Gilbert and M
Sarki."
He
also writes the column "In Dissent" for webdelsol.com
and essays and reviews for elimae,
under the name B. Renner.
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Origami
Cooper
Esteban
Touching
you was worse than
cutting
paper for the first
time.
No
matter what
the
poets say, on the night
before
Thermopylae, the Greek
soldiers
were not combing out
each
other's hair, and the campfires
did
nothing but heighten
the
darkness above them.
Not
even the youngest
would
have thought
to
read the upstarting
smoke
for a message
from
his gods.
© 2001 by Cooper Esteban
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Volume
II Issue III