In Mars Poetica, Wyn Cooper explores the conscious and unconscious ways
we comprehend both the world around us and the one inside. From subjects
like fashion, film, music, and painting, to more solemn and universal
themes such as desire, anxiety, and loss, Cooper shows how such
disparate topics can mirror each other in ways that help us to
illuminate our lives. Employing various styles, forms, and
sensibilities, Cooper's poems both celebrate and mourn, as a means of
illustrating the necessity for maintaining equilibrium in an
increasingly unbalanced world.