Spool

Matthew Cooperman Winner of the New Measure Poetry PrizeFree Verse EditionsEdited by Jon Thompson Free Verse EditionsEdited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing978-1-60235-744-0 (paperback, $14); 978-1-60235-745-7 (PDF, $9.99) © 2016 by Parlor Press. 120 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews Cassandra Cleghorn, Sugar House Reviews (25 June 2017) Peter Burzynski, MAYDAY magazine 11 (2017). "Ghost Music or Plangency: The Organic Momentum of Matthew Cooperman's Spool" by Tyler Sheldon. Entropy. 20 June 2016. Praise for Matthew Cooperman's Spool "Spool's a year 'written in threes'—its three word lines forming narrow columns or perhaps threads. 'Thread' is a word Cooperman explicitly associates with the lyric here and it is also Ariadne's thread of rescue or at least return though, at times, 'the tape is/broken now so / sick and slck.' To change up the metaphor, as this poem does, Spool is a hive of words continuou