Chaos is the New Calm
By Wyn Cooper
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Chaos is the New Calm 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.
Wyn Cooper’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.
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Chaos is the New Calm - Wyn Cooper
Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Chaos Is the New Calm
Colorific
Connect
Daily Threads
Devices
A Diamond Is Not a Stone
Discreetly Functional
Dissolve
Drawer
Eden Sway
Elevens
Euronymous
European
Fin
Five Skies
Forecast
The Forest Has Entered the House
The Half King
Island
Ladder
Like Atlas
Like My Friend
Little Dorrit
Little Houses
Many Things
Matter
Mockingbird
My Future
My Path
No Horse
No One Knows What Tomorrow Is Called
Pinch Me
Posh
Prescription
Pronunciation Key (A to I)
Pronunciation Key (J to P)
Pronunciation Key (Sh to ə)
Reading Parker
A Red Rose
Road Trip
Sharpness of Knives
Sling
T. Rex
This Thing
Three Wrongs
Too Rare
Tracks
Violation
Visiting Archie Shepp
Weave
Notes
Acknowledgements
Dedications
About the Author
BOA Editions, Ltd. American Poets Continuum Series
Colophon
Copyright Page
001In memory of Liam Rector (1949-2007)
Chaos Is the New Calm
Chaos is the new calm
violence the new balm
to be spread on lips
unused to a kiss.
Left is the new right
as I brace for a fight
with a man who stands
on his remaining hand.
Fetid harbor harbor me
until someone is free
to drive me away
from what happened today.
Don’t strand me standing here.
If you leave, leave beer.
Colorific
Colorguard march across an ash
frame into a colorfield painting.
They add a dimension to that
which was flat and which I couldn’t
stop staring at there in the Tate
that force-fed colorized day.
When I left the building I walked
into a color scheme more white
than Mark Rothko’s hair at the end
of his life, whose wife chats me
up from the grave. When she’s
done I list the faults of modern painters.
She doesn’t give a damn what I think