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Wyn Cooper is the author of four collections of poetry, including two from BOA Editions, Postcards from the Interior (2005), and Chaos is the New Calm (2010). Cooper is also a storyteller, songwriter, and essayist. In 1993, the poem “Fun” from his first book, The Country of Here Below (Ahsahta Press, 1987) was turned into the Grammy-winning song “All I Wanna Do” by Sheryl Crow.  Cooper currently works as an editor for both aspiring and established authors and helps run the Brattleboro Literary Festival in Vermont. For more information about Wyn Cooper, visit www.wyncooper.com.

Books by Wyn Cooper

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Fall Book Bundle

Welcome Fall Book Bundlers! With this purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's current fall season along with a few…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Remarkable

Winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize Set within the resilient Great Plains, these award-winning stories are marked by the region’s people and landscape,…

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At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of…

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The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

With a new Foreword by the author and never-before-seen photographs of the author's family and childhood This reissuing of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's American…

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Angels for the Burning

In Angels for the Burning, David Mura examines the experience of contemporary Asian Americans and the various aspects of familial history between first, second, and…

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Dumb Luck

Influenced by the Chinese and Japanese masters, Hamill's Dumb Luck affirms his ability to give us back the world and all its vicissitudes. Here…

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Ithaca

Winner 1971 Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award This 50-page poem is a major contemporary Spanish poet's reworking of the Greek myth of Odysseus, but with…

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