Author Description

<p><i>Chaos is the New Calm</i> expands the parameters of the sonnet form, putting rhymes in unusual places, inventing new stanza structures, and addressing a variety of subject matter ranging from travelogue to inner monologue, from social commentary to solitary musing. These poems are alive with sound, rhythm, and lyric insights into the world.</p> <p><b>Wyn Cooper</b>'s poem "Fun" was adapted by Sheryl Crow for her hit song "All I Wanna Do." He collaborates on music and spoken word with novelist Madison Smartt Bell. Cooper is co-organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. He consults for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.</p> <br> <br> From Verse Wisconsin Online:<br> <br> "These poems move along at an energetic pace often progressing by plays on words and a kind of free association logic or, to put it another way, a sort of "six-degrees-of-separation" type of logic between both people and things."<br> <br>