Forthcoming September 15, 2020 from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press: Committal
—a darkly funny, unlikely buddy story of humans and machines and the earth. It's about dominion over the body, it’s about identity, and it's funny (bears repeating).
“Irene Cooper writes with a poet’s ear for language and an empath’s insights into our deepest human needs. Her character, Luci Sykes—abandoned by her mother, lobotomized by her father—is a 21st century Frankenstein, brilliant and determined to end the world. Committal, set in the near future, is by turns surreal and wrenching.” ~Beth Alvarado, Jillian in the Borderlands: A Cycle of Rather Dark Tales
cover design by Brigitte Lewis
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& Forthcoming from Finishing Line Press:
spare change
spare change is a full-length collection of poems—conversations over distance with the dead & the living—positioning speaker & reader to witness and reconsider illness, addiction, inherited/ absorbed trauma, & constructions of family through form & lyric. Some of it's funny.
Anthologies
Check out page 71 in Poems in the Aftermath from Indolent Books, page 5 in Prometheus Unbound from Prometheus Dreaming
american dream
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