Morrel H. Cohen was born in Boston 98 years ago, received his PhD in theoretical physics at UC Berkeley in 1952 when he joined the faculty of UChicago. He is a scientist still, with post-retirement appointments at Princeton and Rutgers Universities and numbering Nobel Prize winners among his academic descendants. He started writing poems four years ago. The Birds of Crim Road, an illustrated children’s poetry book, was self-published in 2025. His wife’s death demanded he write this, his second book. @morrelcohen
PRAISE:
In The Dreamed-of Other, Morrel Cohen, a physicist by profession, proves himself to be a poet of delicate commemoration. His poems fulfill William Wordsworth’s idea of poetry as past emotional experiences recollected in tranquility. These are delicately rendered remembrances of a married life fulfilled. Though the poet also writes of loss, the poems ultimately tell of tangible joy in a life shared that was resplendent with unforgettable times of happiness, a marriage past, but fulfilled enough to conquer grief in having been lived in loving mutuality— Every mate passed should be so fortunate as to have such a fine tribute of remembrance from theirs. The poet has done much good dreaming of The Dreamed-of Other.
–Daniela Gioseffi, American Book Award winning poet, author, Member of The National Book Critics Circle
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