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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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Untitled
Cooper
Esteban
How
many nights I watched
him
hugging himself
in
their next of moss, or
pushing
Eve
into
a tree,
his
fingers spread
beneath
her breasts,
neither
of
them expecting
Cain,
the furred gap
in
the roof of his skull,
the
slot
I
use to turn them here
and
there, or carrying them squawling
into
the river good
children
would never think to cross.
© 2001 by Cooper Esteban
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Volume
II Issue III