The Way Back

Poetry. Wyn Cooper scored a surprise hit when Sheryl Crow borrowed a poem of his for the lyrics to her song All I Wanna Do. Beyond those 15 minutes of pop fame, however, this Vermont poet and professor (and former editor of Quarterly West) is known for his quiet, clean, sharp-edged poems...populated with dangerous characters, dangerous mostly to themselves, 'who just want to have a little fun,' or be loved. Wyn Cooper's poems are tight and pithy and fun -- James Tate.