Moonlight Rose in Blue

<p><strong>Moonlight Rose in Blue: Collected Poems 1971-2024</strong></p><p><strong>By David Cope</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Moonlight Rose in Blue</em> gathers over five decades of poetry by David Cope a major voice in American literature whose works bridge the grounded clarity of objectivism with the expansive range of postmodern experiment. From early anti-war poems and working-class portraits to visionary meditations and love lyrics Cope weaves a lifelong commitment to compassion honesty and formal innovation. Influenced by mentors like Allen Ginsberg and Robert Hayden Cope's poetry traverses American life with sharp-eyed witness and deep feeling-bearing witness to war labor loss ecological peril and moments of transcendence.</p><p></p><p>This definitive collection includes poems from every phase of Cope's career including selections from his celebrated books <em>Quiet Lives</em> <em>On the Bridge</em> <em>Fragments from the Stars</em> and <em>The Invisible Keys</em> among others. Whether writing in lucid narrative or jazz-inflected free verse Cope builds a poetic language both elegant and accessible. <em>Moonlight Rose in Blue</em> stands as a vital testament to a life lived in poetry and a final statement from one of America's most underrecognized but enduring poets.</p>