David Cooper: Poet, Literary Translator, and Book Critic

Mostly a links blog with occasional commentary on the linked articles (since 2010 mostly my book reviews) and infrequent personal updates. I am a 64 year old married writer. See my website for my current writing projects and to download my ebooks; my about me page has links to my various web 2.0 venues.

Thursday, January 27, 2022

2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists

A week ago National Book Critics Circle announced its 2021 nominees in multiple categories (see link below). For the second year in a row I ...

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Brandon Taylor on D.H. Lawrence & moral fiction

Brandon Taylor: On D.H. Lawrence & moral fiction "It all sounds very abstract, I know. But for me, it comes down to this: moral f...

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Catullus Sails to China, Four Poems by John Yau

Catullus Sails to China, Four Poems by John Yau (thanks to John Madera who published them in Big Other in 2019 and posted this link in Smal...

Thursday, May 27, 2021

From Pogroms to Philip Roth: A Conversation with Steven J. Zipperstein

Fascinating conversation with the author of the forthcoming short Roth biography in the Yale Jewish Lives series: #PhilipRoth #literaryb...

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

2020 NBCC Winners

This past winter I was one of 30 judges of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for a first book. In March N...

Monday, January 25, 2021

2020 John Leonard Prize Finalists

It turns out only one of the six books I nominated for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for a first book is a ...

Sunday, January 10, 2021

My 2020 first book nominees

13 days ago as a National Book Critics Circle voting member I submitted my ballot on which I nominated six first books for NBCC's John ...

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About Me

David Cooper: I am a poet, literary translator, and book critic. Download my two poetry collections from my website: http://davidfcooper.com/, and buy my translation of Rachel Eshed's "Little Promises": http://goo.gl/ajF8l. My translation of Israeli poet Rachel Eshed’s book Little Promises is published in a bilingual edition by Mayapple Press. In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. My translation of one of the poems in Little Promises was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Novelist Tsipi Keller says , “It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed’s poetry without mentioning ‘fire’ : her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper’s renditions not only do justice to the the original but magnify its richness.” PDF files of my two poetry collections, Glued To The Sky and JFK: Lines of Fire (PulpBits, 2003) can be downloaded on my website. I am also a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. You can read my reviews here: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/reviewer/david-cooper.

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