With each new novel, Dennis Cooper's reputation as the most daring
and distinctive writer working in America today is cemented. To
anyone familiar with this writer -- whom the New York Times calls
taut, chillingly ironic, the Washington Post Book World terms
brilliant, and the Village Voice deems capable of religious
intensity -- it will come as no surprise that before he achieved
success as a novelist, Dennis Cooper was best known as a poet. The
Dream Police collects the best poems from five of his previous
books and also includes a selection of new works. From his darkly
erotic early verse to the more refined, post-punk poems that led
critics to dub him the spokesman for the Blank Generation, to his
later experimental pieces, Cooper's evolving study of the distances
and dangers in romantic relationships has made him a singular voice
in American poetry. The Dream Police is a vital addition to Dennis
Cooper's riveting and disarming vision of life, love, obsession,
and the depths of human need. There can be no doubt about the power
and originality of Cooper's writing. -- The Washington Post Book
World; Cooper's vision is at first intense, nearly minimal, then
suddenly it ascends into vision. -- Kathy Acker; In another country
or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in
secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would
pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe. He would risk his
life for them, or maybe he'd just be sent to a mental asylum, like
the Marquis de Sade, to whom he has been compared. This is high
risk literature. It takes enormous courage for a writer to explore,
as Mr. Cooper does, the extreme boundaries of human behavior and
amorality, right to the abyss where desire and lust topple to
death. -- Catherine Texier, The New York Times Book Review.
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