Songs For The Extinction of Winter

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On a continuum that includes the Elegiac Sonnets of Charlotte Turner Smith and Janet Hood’s Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Rob Cook creates his poems of mourning for species, eco-systems, alternate universes and friends. Even in these more personal elegies, the poet is melting the hyperkinetic, hypertech age of today with the traditional. He’s growing now/in the darkness Hopkins and Byron/made for him are the lines that open his “Elegy for a Master in an Age Without Masters,” for the poet Ronald Wardall.

He’s going forward on storm intelligence, maps
he corrected for the pigeons
trying to cross the East River.

He stops to eat an Indian cloud.
He tells lies about his life
so God won’t find him,

The thirteen Songs for the Extinction of Winter are sequences that repeat and enlarge the themes of lastness and lostness, how the epochal and personal entwine. The images and voice of Rob Cook have been compared to that of Cesar Vallejo. It has been noted that the “difficulty of his poetry [Vallejo’s] initially hindered the international recognition it deserves.” Like Vallejo, Cook’s poetry might be considered difficult and the same sort of descriptive language applied to Vallejo’s work “impressionistic, chaotic, even incomprehensible” might be applied to Songs for the Extinction of Winter. Vallejo and Cook share the visionary eye, the quick surprise, vulnerability and often a quizzical playful; tone that a child might delight in.

Title: Songs For The Extinction of Winter
ISBN: 9780978610593
Author: Rob Cook
Illustrator: Gur R. Beining
Publisher: Rain Mountain Press
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soft cover / 112 pages / approx size 5.5 x 8.5 / trade
About the Author:
Rob Cook’s SONGS FOR THE EXTINCTION OF WINTER and DIARY OF TADPOLE THE DIRTBAG, are published by Rain Mountain Press. He is the author of BLACKOUT COUNTRY (BlazeVOX Books, 2009) and his work has appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Many Mountains Moving, Tarpaulin Sky, Fence, Oranges & Sardines, The Bitter Oleander, Mudfish, Parthenon West Review, etc. His UNDERMINING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CLUB was runner up in the Many Mountains Moving 2007 book competition. His “Song of America” is reprinted in BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 2009. He lives in New York City's East Village.
Copyright Year:
2006

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