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Author: Jack Cooper

Publisher: World Audience

ISBN: 978-1-934209-37-0

Jack Cooper who has written for television, film and the stage, was a runner-up in the Georgetown Review 2006 writing contest and also winner of the Palabra Productions 2006 National Poetry Month Contest.

He has had many other achievements with his literary skills and has had recent work appear in many national and regional journals.

Jack received a Bachelor’s of Science at the University of Redlands, a second Bachelor’s in psychology and English literature at the University of Trondheim, Norway.

Across My Silence is Cooper’s first full length book of poetry.

Across My Silence is a wonderful collection of deep poetry composed by Jack Cooper. He captures a powerful emotion behind these poems, some filled with darkness others beauty and peace. These poems are so superbly put together, it is almost as if the author has painted these scenes and visions with a fine paint brush. He opens up your soul and allows you to use your imagination  

Cooper’s passion for animals is portrayed through this collection. A lovely example of his undying love for nature is the rather moving The Turtles of La Escobilla. How no matter what mankind does to the shell-backed creatures, these turtles will always return.

Among The Creatures is another poem that conjured up emotion in me. Again we see Cooper’s love for the many other living beings, such as his aging cat of whom he speaks with a great respect “my bowl is his bowl”. A lovely, lovely poem which appealed to me in a big way for I’m such an animal lover as Cooper no doubt is himself.

A Morning of Nothing is a thought-provoking poem about such objects as pencils and erasers. An example of this is perhaps:

“A pencil is something,

that makes nothing something,

An eraser is something,

that makes something nothing.”

Cooper has managed to portray that nothing can be something if it tries. Is there a message in this poem? Perhaps if you look at it deep enough you’ll find the hidden meaning. Another of Mr Cooper’s amazing, stimulating verses.

No Longer was a poem that I could associate with. We look at things through Cooper’s vision and see the world as sometimes, a very lonely place. Homeless pigeons searching through abandoned parking lots and a house with no garden, shuddering in the sudden wind. He captures this scene very well with the use of just words.

Across My Silence really does at times, live up to its title. I just got so lost in this world that the author brings to us that I was, for a moment, completely speechless. Silent.

This collection will appeal to all who have a love for philosophy and a deep understanding of nature. Splendid.

The above review was contributed by: Jessica Roberts: Jessica has been a book reviewer for a newspaper and a national women's magazine and is working on a novel. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE