Spool

WINNER OF THE NEW MEASURE POETRY PRIZE FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by JON THOMPSON "SPOOL'S a year 'written in threes'-its three word lines forming narrow columns or perhaps threads. 'Thread' is a word Cooperman explicitly associates with the lyric here and it is also Ariadne's thread of rescue or at least return though, at times, 'the tape is/broken now so / sick and slck.' To change up the metaphor, as this poem does, SPOOL is a hive of words continuously active and also continuously thre...