The Weaklings (XL) Paperback – December 17, 2013

Everything that Cooper writes is haunting, and disturbing, and beautiful. This is no exception.

This is DC's best work in a long time. Like a lot of readers, I was disappointed by the intentional obscurantism of The Marbled Swarm. One of the things I've always admired about DC's writing style is the clarity, the pared-down essentialism, if you will. So I was surprised to see that these poems harken back to DC's earlier work. Dark, cold, sometimes brutal, occasionally humorous...all the qualities we look for in a good lover.