The Book of Falling

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Book of Falling</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> circles around a thematic focus of falling: falling in love falling from grace and exploring fallen worlds in an age marked by calamity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>To fall is to be human. We fall in love fall asleep and fall from grace. And in this epoch that we have called the Anthropocene we are witnessing nothing less than the fall of nature.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This extraordinary collection the fifth by the prize-winning poet David McCooey covers the full tragicomic spectrum of falling: from pratfalls to tragic demises from accident-prone parents to ruinous celebrities.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Within its unifying thematic focus </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Book of Falling</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is tonally and formally diverse attending with great artistry to the calamities and absurdities of history and the contemporary world. The collection comprises of satires and elegies inventive poetic autofictions and biofictions and innovative photopoems employing found photos and photographs by the author. This is a collection that welcomes its readers even as it plunges them into new ways of understanding the beautiful fallen worlds that we inhabit.</span></p>