The Truth About the Sun by Jamie Cooper
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Jamie Cooper‘s The Truth About the Sun spins mythic tales exploring relationships between humans and the natural world. Steeped in Greek mythology, history, and family lore, these poems showcase visions, rituals, and “a towering elm.” In alternately spiritual and feudal dreamlands, Cooper reveals “everything the novice needs to know / about light” and invites us to follow as “I go with a birdcage strapped upon my shoulders.” Immersed in the world of Cooper’s poems, we receive “the gift of knives, the gift of clocks / or the gift of scarves;” we, too, recognize our place and “know it, suddenly, / & with a green clarity / quickened by the sun.”
–Genevieve Kaplan, author of (aviary)
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The Truth about the Sun begins with a polygraph and ends with a sequence of sentences that deftly negate the weather from the human point of view. Between these bookends, Jamie Cooper‘s lucid poems construct a “sentient garden,” a ripe textual space that performs the marvelous task of confronting difficult truths about the self and our world crises while also deploying the “spell” language of lyric poetry. These are poems of a great, expansive soul-substance, visionary, sensitive, surprising, perfectly blending the dream and waking life. “I’ve listened to the lucky ringing in my ears,” he writes in one poem, and we’re lucky, too, to have that ringing in our ears.
–Nathan Hoks, author of Nests in Air
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