Background
Cooperman, Matthew B. was born on April 8, 1964 in New Haven. Son of Lawrence Rayfield and Sandra Jean Cooperman.
(Winner of the 2000 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Aw...)
Winner of the 2000 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award A SACRIFICIAL ZINC impels the reader on a journey into the nature of place. Written out of a vanished suburban landscape, Mathew Cooperman's book-- part navigational trope, part metaphor of embodiment--enacts the complex weave of identity as a series of places, lovers, influences, and natural objects. The landscape itself is beautifully particularized as the desert and mountain spaces of the American West, and the flora and fauna of the Pacific Rim. From "the blue Pacific exactly the color of cold" to "the magnolia leaves of California / in the first scuttle of fall," these lovely poems ground a journey in that "little better thing than earth." "Matthew Cooperman's poetry dramatizes a sensibility that longs to find a sufficiency for the spirit in full presence, presentness that rises from memory and even from memory and even from declaration."--Mark Halliday
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Cooperman, Matthew B. was born on April 8, 1964 in New Haven. Son of Lawrence Rayfield and Sandra Jean Cooperman.
Bachelor, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1986. Master of Arts, University Colorado, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio University, 1998.
Instructor Ohio University, Athens, 1997—1998. Adjunct professor, teaching assistant Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999. Instructor, adjunct professor University Colorado, Boulder, 1999—2001.
Assistant professor Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 2002—2003. Assistant professor department English Colorado State University, Fort Collins, since 2003. Editor, contributing editor Quarter After Eight, Athens, since 1993.
(Winner of the 2000 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Aw...)
Member grants board Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder, 2001. Member of Modern Language Association, Academy American Poets, Association of Writing Programs.