A full-length collection of poems coming from Siren Songs (edited by Joanna C. Valente with cover art by Grace Linderholm). You can order it from IndieBound and barnes and noble, or order it directly from the author by sending $13 via paypal (here) and including your name and mailing address in the notes section of the payment.
Stuff people have said about it:
"Dumbhead/Stupidface is a spirited new book by Cooper Wilhelm, it has all the intensity and bravado youth can muster, it hits hard."
—Peter Gizzi, finalist for the National Book Award, author of Archeophonics, Threshold Songs, The Outernationale, and Artificial Heart
"Good love stories aren’t interesting to read about. Thankfully, DUMBHEART/STUPIDFACE provides a wonderful reprieve; Wilhelm writes the brutal truths of what it means to love someone with a detached ferocity generally observed in nature, as when a tiger devours a deer. And it is as exciting to watch."
—Bijan Stephen
"Here’s where good things go get desperate, Cooper Wilhelm writes. Reading his work is like reading a palm—there is the heart, there is the hurt, and there—right there— is the possibility. It’s a beautiful experience, but it’s also painful to watch the gouging-out of the self; the vulnerability leaves such salt on your lips. I even cried as I read this: And I wept as the gendarmes chained/my hooves with whips, because I saw a poetry that sang loudly and held nothing back. Be not afraid. This collection is an antidote to the hiding-away of truth: our lovers and how they might destroy us, our blood and how it might kill us, our ancestors and how they pool through us. Every poem is a tomb and a light. "
—Lisa Marie Basile, Founder Luna Luna, author of Apocryphal, War/Lock, and Andalucia
Swine Song
A limited edition chapbook of poems about pigs written as part of Business Bear Press's Animals series. Cover by Grace Linderholm.
Klaatu Verata Nikto
A micro chapbook containing exactly one very long poem about necromancy, break-ups, and Walt Whitman available from Ghost City Press.
Some Poems
The Mountain Astrologer Magazine — “Night Falls and the Neighbors…” and “Psychometry Sonnet”
Cotton Xenomorph — “Pilates; or, Seven Words You Can’t Say on NPR’s F**** A** with Terry Gross”
Breadcrumbs — “BREADCRUMB #533”
Tiny Flames Press — “Hybrid Moments”
Drunk Monkeys — “‘Salem’s Lot”
Landfill — "When You Go to Where the Bells Ring From"
Goat's Milk Magazine — "Zest and Rind"
Occulum — "I don't want this to be the poem that ruins bacon."
Souvenir — "We think we can see inside a diamond without tearing it apart" and "Clock and Brambles."
Cosmonauts Avenue — "Even Batteries" and "Poem of a Monologue..."
Rogue Agent — "Mange Ways"
Adirondack Review — "Ἀγάπη No More" and "Behold stout joys of creation."
Moonsick Magazine — "Basement's full."
Luna Luna Magazine — "By the time the killers got there, we were gone." "The Miracle of the Cloaca" "Prayer to Dagon" "Two Poems that are the Same Poem"
Vanilla Sex Magazine — "Wächtersteine, kistvaen, The cairn or excavated cist." and "Hummock Bark"
FIVE2ONE — "4 AM"
Reality Beach — "People I Could Name" and "Meat Clock"
Rust + Moth — "Vigilance is the price of mercy."
Queen Mob's Tea House — "Apoptosome."
Drunk in a Midnight Choir — "Squeeze tight." and "Probabilities will collapse."
FLAPPERHOUSE — "Slept Through"
Yes, Poetry — "Summations End"
The Mackinac — "Prayer to Francis Wilhelm"
The Opiate — "Everyone I've spoken to doesn't want you to succeed." and "Holy are the disembodied."
Some Fiction and Non-Fiction and Sort-Of Fiction
ctrl + v — “with hand extended which is undesirable”
FLAPPERHOUSE — "Scent"
Luna Luna — “True to the Earth: Cooper Wilhelm Interviews Kadmus”
Dirge — "Meet Saint Cyprian, Patron Saint of Dark Magic"
CLASH — "How to Survive Going to Ikea: Tips From a Witch"
Luna Luna — “Reviving the Magical Life and Times of the Three Kings”
The Storymaker's Association — "Metropolitan Exhaustion"
The Opiate — "So Jung Kommen Wir Nicht Mehr Zusammen"