Time, & Its Monuments
Human folly is to believe our ziggurat is real, a really long time. But as the founder of modern geology Sir George Lyell declared only as recently as 1830, “Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth’s surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them.” Watching the days go by, we write, we build, we grasp, we render frangible towers in the sky. Matthew Cooperman’ s  Time, & Its Monument  captures this eroded sequence by tracking signs of human impermanence: solve et coagula, the inevitable falling away and coming together of all matter, how and what we watch, and who, and the collaborative acts of empathy by which humans might, if not extend, meaningfully ornament the Anthropocene. These are prose poems, cut ups, necessary collages. They vary in such matters as Wittgenstein, the panopticon, and the Gulf Wars to the poetics of drought emerging through erasure with Ed Dorn’s The Shoshoneans,  his famous study of the Great Basin. Cooperman’s Time, & Its Monument  frames the artifacts of the human set: “in the long    run recurrence / the stacking of shells / days certain seasons / the steeple accrues.”  
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Time, & Its Monuments
Human folly is to believe our ziggurat is real, a really long time. But as the founder of modern geology Sir George Lyell declared only as recently as 1830, “Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth’s surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them.” Watching the days go by, we write, we build, we grasp, we render frangible towers in the sky. Matthew Cooperman’ s  Time, & Its Monument  captures this eroded sequence by tracking signs of human impermanence: solve et coagula, the inevitable falling away and coming together of all matter, how and what we watch, and who, and the collaborative acts of empathy by which humans might, if not extend, meaningfully ornament the Anthropocene. These are prose poems, cut ups, necessary collages. They vary in such matters as Wittgenstein, the panopticon, and the Gulf Wars to the poetics of drought emerging through erasure with Ed Dorn’s The Shoshoneans,  his famous study of the Great Basin. Cooperman’s Time, & Its Monument  frames the artifacts of the human set: “in the long    run recurrence / the stacking of shells / days certain seasons / the steeple accrues.”  
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Time, & Its Monuments

Time, & Its Monuments

by Matthew Cooperman
Time, & Its Monuments

Time, & Its Monuments

by Matthew Cooperman

Overview

Human folly is to believe our ziggurat is real, a really long time. But as the founder of modern geology Sir George Lyell declared only as recently as 1830, “Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth’s surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them.” Watching the days go by, we write, we build, we grasp, we render frangible towers in the sky. Matthew Cooperman’ s  Time, & Its Monument  captures this eroded sequence by tracking signs of human impermanence: solve et coagula, the inevitable falling away and coming together of all matter, how and what we watch, and who, and the collaborative acts of empathy by which humans might, if not extend, meaningfully ornament the Anthropocene. These are prose poems, cut ups, necessary collages. They vary in such matters as Wittgenstein, the panopticon, and the Gulf Wars to the poetics of drought emerging through erasure with Ed Dorn’s The Shoshoneans,  his famous study of the Great Basin. Cooperman’s Time, & Its Monument  frames the artifacts of the human set: “in the long    run recurrence / the stacking of shells / days certain seasons / the steeple accrues.”  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781581772333
Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Publication date: 08/25/2025
Pages: 108
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Poet, critic, editor, educator, Matthew Cooperman’s work explores the inter-disciplinary boundaries of poetry, ethnography, ecopoetics and visual arts. He is the author of, most recently, Wonder About The (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023), winner of the Halcyon Prize. Other works include NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), & Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016). Matthew Cooperman is a Professor of English at Colorado State University, and lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, & their children.

Table of Contents

A Little History of the Panorama Time, & Its Monument S H O S H N E N S Black. Star. Pieces. Notes and Acknowledgements
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