{"product_id":"the-death-and-rebirth-of-ophelia","title":"The Death and Rebirth of Ophelia","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cooperman\u003c\/strong\u003e confesses that \u003ci\u003eMacbeth,\u003c\/i\u003e not \u003ci\u003eHamlet, \u003c\/i\u003eis his favorite play by Shakespeare. In fact, \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Rebirth of Ophelia \u003c\/i\u003eis his revenge on the play for having been forced to read it on all-too numerous occasions in high school, college, and graduate school, and has come to thoroughly detest the title character. So, one fine day the thought hit him over the head: What if Ophelia traded places with a woman who bore her an uncanny resemblance in the visiting acting troupe and left Elsinore with that troupe, to become a strolling player? Such is the premise of Cooperman’s latest poetry collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eIn the past, he’s written about the Trojan War and its aftermath—\u003ci\u003eThe Ghosts and Bones of Troy \u003c\/i\u003e(Kelsay Books, 2020), \u003ci\u003eLost on the Blood Dark Sea \u003c\/i\u003e(FutureCycle Press, 2020), and \u003ci\u003eTroy\u003c\/i\u003e (March Street Press, 2011)—especially from the point of view of his first literary hero, Odysseus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOther collections have followed Cooperman’s hyper-violent Old West alter ego, John Sprockett, “that saint of sacred mayhem,” who will never allow a lady to be scorned or anyone to stare rudely at his ruined face, as in \u003ci\u003eIn the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains \u003c\/i\u003e(Western Reflections Pub Co., 1999),\u003ci\u003e The Widow’s Burden \u003c\/i\u003e(Western Reflections Pub Co., 2001), and \u003ci\u003eA Nightmare on Horseback\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2022).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eMost recently, in \u003ci\u003eSteerage\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2024), he created a highly fictionalized account of his maternal grandfather’s youthful travails on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century. \u003ci\u003eDraft Board Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (FutureCycle Press, 2017), another recent collection, narrated Cooperman’s battle to keep from being killed in Vietnam. \u003ci\u003eTheir Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2018) tells of his parents’ experiences at then Fort Bragg during the last days of World War II.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eCooperman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and completed a PhD in Creative Writing and 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century British Literature at the University of Denver. He has taught at the University of Georgia, Bowling Green State University, and the University of Baltimore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHe lives in Denver with his wife Beth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 108 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (February 19, 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReview:\u003cbr\u003eLondon Grip Poetry Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53362159583541,"sku":"edh1787287021910","price":15.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/the-death-and-rebirth-of-ophelia_1.jpg?v=1787287028","url":"https:\/\/trelivora.com\/products\/the-death-and-rebirth-of-ophelia","provider":"trelivora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}