& Calling It Home

Overview

"& CALLING IT HOME seems to me a kind of complex & various daybook, written from the center of being, a constantly shifting brilliance that suffers itself with an exquisite sense of music & measure. How numinous the yearning nature of the self is, how wise & helpless & brave. This is a deeply felt & painfully accurate journey; I read it at one sitting & was transformed by it"Jon Anderson. Cooper begins by invoking Jack Spicer and Gertrude Stein before making her way into the nervecenter of language: "These walls/ Alone are my peers, calling instead of/ Old or rough fixes, old keyholes, / Old emotion. An absolute void, dreaming/ Like a fresh thorn./ There is not even a north or south."

Author Biography

Lisa Cooper (now Lisa Cooper Anderson) has been one of the American Southwest's finest poets for the last 40 years. Her work is expansive, formally energetic and inventive, and touches on issues all of us care about: language, love, life, and the world in which we live. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.