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BROADSTONE BOOKS PRESENTS
Steven R. Cope's
THE FURRBAWL POEMS
UNCOLLECTED POEMS,
1973-1993
I have a gnome in tattered breeches
I feed with the hound.
He limps out of the forest
And up to the pan.
He laps up the gravy.
He thinks I don't see him.
-from "Furrbawl"
Steven R. Cope has indeed seen
Furrbawl, his primordial alter-ego; and in
the poems gathered here he shares many
such visions, mysterious, exotic, even
disturbing, lurking in the ordinary,
conducting us on a journey across
twenty years rich in poetic imagination
and observation, through wonder and
humor and despair and hope, and
through his own evolution as a poet.
Published June, 2005, xx+174 pages
Clothbound, ISBN 0-9721144-4-0,
$27.50
Paperback, ISBN 0-9721144-3-2,
$16.50
Praise for Steven R. Cope and The
Furrbawl Poems
"Steven R. Cope is a poet in the tradition
of Homer, Whitman, and Yeats.
Committed above all to write even at the
expense of creature comfort and in
contempt of convention in art and life, he
owns a cosmic vision including animate
and inanimate, human and nonhuman,
soul and body, God and evil.
"Within The Furrbawl Poems is a rich
and entertaining world of humor, wit,
wisdom, and the myriad mysteries within
existence"
- Harry Brown, Foundation Professor at
Eastern Kentucky University, author of
Measuring Man and Everything Its
Opposite
"These are poems by which we may
devise our own latitudes and longitudes
as we make the journey. They glow like
foxfire, they plead with the terrible
urgency of prayer."
- Charles Semones, author of Afternoon
in the Country of Summer and A Storm
of Honey
"I'm delighted, and relieved, to see Steve
Cope's work getting the long-overdue
attention it deserves. He's among our
deepest, most eloquent and versatile
writers, 'a man come to his senses, a
dignity enraged.'"
- James Baker Hall, former Kentucky
Poet Laureate, author of The Total Light
Process
"Congratulations to Steven R. Cope,
whose latest collection, The Furrbawl
Poems, reveals the courage of a poet
who says what he wants to say and in his
own way.
"Steven R. Cope writes of childhood
and of politics, of the familiar and of the
strange, and somehow all of these
previously uncollected poems together
say more than he knows, 'more than can
be known.'"
- Betty Peterson, Professor of English,
Somerset Community College
THE FURRBAWL PRIZE
Broadstone Books is proud to sponsor
the Kentucky State Poetry Society
"Furrbawl Prize" category of the KSPS
annual adult poetry competition, judged
by Steven R. Cope (aka ol' Furrbawl
himself), for the best poem dealing with
the relationship of man and nature.
Steven R. Cope's
THE FURRBAWL POEMS
UNCOLLECTED POEMS,
1973-1993
I have a gnome in tattered breeches
I feed with the hound.
He limps out of the forest
And up to the pan.
He laps up the gravy.
He thinks I don't see him.
-from "Furrbawl"
Steven R. Cope has indeed seen
Furrbawl, his primordial alter-ego; and in
the poems gathered here he shares many
such visions, mysterious, exotic, even
disturbing, lurking in the ordinary,
conducting us on a journey across
twenty years rich in poetic imagination
and observation, through wonder and
humor and despair and hope, and
through his own evolution as a poet.
Published June, 2005, xx+174 pages
Clothbound, ISBN 0-9721144-4-0,
$27.50
Paperback, ISBN 0-9721144-3-2,
$16.50
Praise for Steven R. Cope and The
Furrbawl Poems
"Steven R. Cope is a poet in the tradition
of Homer, Whitman, and Yeats.
Committed above all to write even at the
expense of creature comfort and in
contempt of convention in art and life, he
owns a cosmic vision including animate
and inanimate, human and nonhuman,
soul and body, God and evil.
"Within The Furrbawl Poems is a rich
and entertaining world of humor, wit,
wisdom, and the myriad mysteries within
existence"
- Harry Brown, Foundation Professor at
Eastern Kentucky University, author of
Measuring Man and Everything Its
Opposite
"These are poems by which we may
devise our own latitudes and longitudes
as we make the journey. They glow like
foxfire, they plead with the terrible
urgency of prayer."
- Charles Semones, author of Afternoon
in the Country of Summer and A Storm
of Honey
"I'm delighted, and relieved, to see Steve
Cope's work getting the long-overdue
attention it deserves. He's among our
deepest, most eloquent and versatile
writers, 'a man come to his senses, a
dignity enraged.'"
- James Baker Hall, former Kentucky
Poet Laureate, author of The Total Light
Process
"Congratulations to Steven R. Cope,
whose latest collection, The Furrbawl
Poems, reveals the courage of a poet
who says what he wants to say and in his
own way.
"Steven R. Cope writes of childhood
and of politics, of the familiar and of the
strange, and somehow all of these
previously uncollected poems together
say more than he knows, 'more than can
be known.'"
- Betty Peterson, Professor of English,
Somerset Community College
THE FURRBAWL PRIZE
Broadstone Books is proud to sponsor
the Kentucky State Poetry Society
"Furrbawl Prize" category of the KSPS
annual adult poetry competition, judged
by Steven R. Cope (aka ol' Furrbawl
himself), for the best poem dealing with
the relationship of man and nature.
Steven R. Cope is an author and
songwriter. He has taught
writing at the University of
Kentucky, Morehead State
University and Eastern Kentucky
University, as well as teaching
hundreds of students to play
guitar. In addition to scores of
publications in journals and
magazines over more than thirty
years, his previous books or
poems and stories include In
Killdeer's Field, Sassafras, The
Book of Saws, Clover's Log
and Crow!, a book of children's
poems. He lives in Winchester,
Kentucky.
songwriter. He has taught
writing at the University of
Kentucky, Morehead State
University and Eastern Kentucky
University, as well as teaching
hundreds of students to play
guitar. In addition to scores of
publications in journals and
magazines over more than thirty
years, his previous books or
poems and stories include In
Killdeer's Field, Sassafras, The
Book of Saws, Clover's Log
and Crow!, a book of children's
poems. He lives in Winchester,
Kentucky.