The Furrbawl Poems
All of Cope’s poems from 1973-1993 not previously collected. The book chronicles Cope’s development as a poet, taking us through his experimentation with various voices and personae, always with an empathy that keeps us guessing—is Cope himself saying this? Is it the “Furrbawl?” And who or what is the “Furrbawl” anyway?
Reviews for The Furrbawl Poems:
Harry Brown--
Foundation Professor at Eastern Kentucky University, author of Measuring Man and Everything Its Opposite
"Steven R. Cope is a poet in the tradition of Homer, Whitman, and Yeats. Committed above all to write even at the expense of creature comfort and in contempt of convention in art and life, he owns a cosmic vision including animate and inanimate, human and nonhuman, soul and body, God and evil. "Within The Furrbawl Poems is a rich and entertaining world of humor, wit, wisdom, and the myriad mysteries within existence."
Charles Semones--
author of Afternoon in the Country of Summer and A Storm of Honey
"These are poems by which we may devise our own latitudes and longitudes as we make the journey. They glow like foxfire, they plead with the terrible urgency of prayer."
James Baker Hall--
former Kentucky Poet Laureate, author of The Total Light Process
"I'm delighted, and relieved, to see Steve Cope's work getting the long-overdue attention it deserves. He's among our deepest, most eloquent and versatile writers, 'a man come to his senses, a dignity enraged.'"
Betty Peterson--
Professor of English, Somerset Community College
"Congratulations to Steven R. Cope, whose latest collection, The Furrbawl Poems, reveals the courage of a poet who says what he wants to say and in his own way.
"Steven R. Cope writes of childhood and of politics, of the familiar and of the strange, and somehow all of these previously uncollected poems together say more than he knows, 'more than can be known.'"
© 2002, 174 pages, softcover; This book is available from Amazon or directly from the publisher. To inquire about ordering a copy signed by the author, please e-mail info@stevenrcope.com