We Are Mermaids: Poems Bernard Cooper Barely out of childhood

Barely out of childhood

she even gets the attention of her hero

- Christina Lauren

you are already sexually whole

000 goes missing from Victor's Hot Topic-esque mall store under his watch

We Are Mermaids: Poems Bernard Cooper Barely out of childhoodEffusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, "perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say" (Boston Review) Stephanie Burt's poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to exist. Frozen isn't simply another Disney animated musical