The Unraveling
These are poems of engagement and attachment, of wisdom and bafflement. With arresting restraint, Cooper interrogates intimacy and distance––how hard it is to know the self, and others. These poems are a masterful and haunting catalogue of how we navigate––churning forward and looking back––with the memory of perfumes, with "false compasses," with the "velour clutch filled with grievances" we might never let go of.
--Andrea Cohen