If you were to splice the DNA's of Walter Mitty and Salvador Dali,
or Cuisinart together the collected works of Louis Simpson and Dean
Young, you might get the poems of Bruce Cohen. His suburban
speakers are often cleaning the garage or steaming off wallpaper in
the bedroom, but secretly they are involved in criminal adventures
of the imagination, in subtle and hilarious cultural critique, in
fantasies of quiet desperation. These are rampages of irony,
tenderness and wit, furnished with the verbal wizardry and bravado
of a quiet maniac.-This is terrific work from start to finish, by a
bright new poetry star in the American sky. --Tony Hoagland Bruce
Cohen's Disloyal Yo-Yo is not a collection of poems so much as it
is a full-blown surreal but humane visionary account of what it
means to be alive in the 21st century. His imagination sweeps
across his experience like the "Super Doppler" he hopes might
"hover over our lives to transmit intimate newscasts." And what
gets transmitted in Cohen's poems is not only the intimacy of human
relationships but the strange, quirky, unpredictable
transformations, "a tornado of patio furniture," that refreshes and
reinvents our world. --Michael Collier Like the paintings of Rene
Magritte, the songs of Tom Waits, and the Coen brothers' films,
Bruce Cohen's poetry offers observations that are simultaneously
razor-sharp recognizable and arrestingly askew. His poems are
haunting and hilarious, coolly surreal and stingingly poignant. As
the best literature always does, his poems knock me off-balance as
they expand my understanding of the absurdities, challenges, and
dividends of modern life. Cohen sits at the top of my short list of
favorite contemporary poets. ---Wally Lamb Bruce Cohen's poems,
which I have known for years, keep coming back to me in some askew
way that leads me forward. He is one of the most loving and
unpretentious humorous poets I know, and the incisiveness of his
craft is always guided by awareness. He means poetry to be
quick--bared, vital, bold, original, alive--and he pulls all this
off again and again. Finally, a whole collection to begin to do
Bruce Cohen's poetry some justice. --William Olsen
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