<DIV><p><I>Chaos is the New Calm</I> expands the parameters of the sonnet form, putting rhymes in unusual places, inventing new stanza structures, and addressing a variety of subject matter ranging from travelogue to inner monologue, from social commentary to solitary musing. These poems are alive with sound, rhythm, and lyric insights into the world.</p><p><B>Wyn Cooper</B>'s poem ?Fun” was adapted by Sheryl Crow for her hit song ?All I Wanna Do.” He collaborates on music and spoken word with novelist Madison Smartt Bell. Cooper is co-organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. He consults for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.</p><BR><BR>From Verse Wisconsin Online:<BR><BR>?These poems move along at an energetic pace often progressing by plays on words and a kind of free association logic or, to put it another way, a sort of ?six-degrees-of-separation” type of logic between both people and things.”<br><BR></DIV>