The Weaklings

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