The Muse Sings  
Author(s): Dennis Cooley
Published by At Bay Press
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ISBN: 9781988168883
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The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation…

The poems speak for themselves and sometimes “they talk all at once.” In seductive acts of language itself, they invoke and embrace the Muses as much as they do the writers who would become muses, from ancient Homer and Shakespeare to poets of contemporary time.

These poems are the seasoned work of a trickster poet in his prime with a crow’s eye trained on the world. No silent words on the page, these: they are alert, thoughtful, at turns cheeky and saucy. The poems all but produce decibels despite the inked imprint on the page that would fix them silent in place, until a living voice sets them free.
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The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation…

The poems speak for themselves and sometimes “they talk all at once.” In seductive acts of language itself, they invoke and embrace the Muses as much as they do the writers who would become muses, from ancient Homer and Shakespeare to poets of contemporary time.

These poems are the seasoned work of a trickster poet in his prime with a crow’s eye trained on the world. No silent words on the page, these: they are alert, thoughtful, at turns cheeky and saucy. The poems all but produce decibels despite the inked imprint on the page that would fix them silent in place, until a living voice sets them free.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Introduction
  • Contents
  • Overtures
    • what is your name
    • my fair lady
    • it is a calling
    • qu’appelle
    • the petulant poet
    • he having met the muse
    • there in the plaid light
    • buried you in the grave
    • the internet muse strikes again
    • the poet’s letter of surcease & submission
    • postcard to the muse
    • he writes to the muse
    • touché
    • clippety clop
    • broken hearted
    • velodrome
    • a trick with a truck
    • courting
    • there you have it
    • mnemonics
    • unh uhnn
  • Collaborations
    • they come down with a bad case of poetry
    • they make beautiful music
    • he (almost) escapes with the muse
    • first edition
    • poetry: the ins and outs of
    • dearly departed
    • his musings
    • chiasmus
    • the poet loves her machines
    • “would you believe”
    • the prairie muse explains her role
    • Dear Dubé
    • my great wish she said
    • the holy font
    • the 12th letter
    • wherein they dispute
    • earrotics
    • badly muddled
    • X
    • Pompeii
    • Nefertiti
    • if this is isis
    • embodied
    • world of reference
  • The Muse Speaks Out
    • the muse, her powers
    • why not
    • on the other and
    • of all the luck
    • the romantic poet delivers
    • night an ink
    • LP
    • an itch an ache
    • muse of a promising
    • he wldnt breathe
    • her greatest disappointments
    • librarians
    • the muse seeks the secrets of the universe
    • on to logical concerns
    • the muse calls
    • she tries to rally him
    • she still woos her muse
    • rodentia
    • rescue mission
    • beat it, she said
    • under the streets
    • he foresees his end
    • it tears me apart
    • he falls to pieces
    • terminal case
    • translations
  • In all Things
    • visitation
    • dream letter
    • #1 East
    • you, waiting
    • homecoming
    • dream of you
    • in tongues
    • dear valentine
    • reading
    • she appears
    • but then you speak
    • in all things
    • time happens
    • radio at night
  • And You, Dear Reader
    • apology
    • a poem for you
  • acknowledgments
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