Close Apart

<p><strong>CLOSE APART<br />by Robert Cowan</strong></p><p>Published by Paloma Press<br />ISBN: 978-1-7323025-0-1<br />Library of Congress Control Number: 2018942360</p><p>From Donna Masini author of <em>4:30 Movie</em> (Norton) “<strong><em>Close Apart</em></strong> begins on a subway in a community of passengers with a child in distress a city in blackout. It’s a generous deeply empathetic book filled with characters stories and a remarkable tenderness—for the suffering and vulnerability of children for the flawed adults they become. A father’s delight in his daughter’s wacky imagination finds a surprising echo in Cowan’s brainy sophisticated and witty speaker who can move from quantity theory to all manner of magical thinking and numerical rationalization in his restless questions his attempts to make sense of a chaotic and troubling world.”</p><p><strong>Robert Cowan</strong> is a literature professor and dean at the City University of New York. He’s also the author of <em>The Indo- German Identification: Reconciling South Asian Origins and European Destinies 1765-1885</em> (Camden House 2010) and <em>Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College</em> (Peter Lang 2018). This is his first collection of poetry.</p>