The Weaklings (XL)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. THE WEAKLINGS (XL), which expands upon a limited edition 2008 book of the same name, gathers the best of Cooper's poetry from the last 19 years.

"Dennis Cooper's poems are at the heart—the core—of his divine oeuvre. Pure genius, they are tender and deadened, breathing and stupefied. A secret formalist, he fastidiously packages and trammels consciousness, which gives his cameos an aura of total authenticity. He never fakes it. As a consequence, I idolize and interalize every word he writes."—Wayne Koestenbaum