Coming Home

David Cope's fourth collection, Coming Home, binds together the two major strands of his life and art. In poem after poem, Cope is by turn the clear-eyed strider of our broken cities, or the profoundly lyrical explorer of nature, of redemptive human intimacy in all its silence and nakedness. And often there is an extraordinary synthesis, as in:

The Abandoned City

if we sit long enough, will our love grow wise?

the roman mottos tumble from facades & crash.

where statesmen argued the lang...