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Cooper Renner

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My newest publications are “Because of This Night,” a collection of paintings and Oulipo poems included in *Triple No. 14* and “I Would Prefer Not To,” a collection of line drawings in *Triple No. 8* (both published by Ravenna Press). I am the author/illustrator of the graphic novel *The Tommy Plans* (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), set in Texas during the Cold War (to comic effect). "Coyotes," a short story included in the anthology *New Border Voices* was published by Texas A&M University Press, in 2014. *Triple No. 1* (Ravenna, 2012) includes two collections of my drawings, a wordless erotic series "The Amores" and the supernatural illustrated story "The Sorrows of Young Hemdlos." *Disbelief*, my novella about the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in My newest publications are “Because of This Night,” a collection of paintings and Oulipo poems included in *Triple No. 14* and “I Would Prefer Not To,” a collection of line drawings in *Triple No. 8* (both published by Ravenna Press). I am the author/illustrator of the graphic novel *The Tommy Plans* (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), set in Texas during the Cold War (to comic effect). "Coyotes," a short story included in the anthology *New Border Voices* was published by Texas A&M University Press, in 2014. *Triple No. 1* (Ravenna, 2012) includes two collections of my drawings, a wordless erotic series "The Amores" and the supernatural illustrated story "The Sorrows of Young Hemdlos." *Disbelief*, my novella about the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Malta, is available from Ravenna Press. Five novels in “The Wolves of Malta” series are available as ebooks at Amazon.com and BN.com: *The Virgin by Moonlight,* *Weird Stories from the Old Country,* *The Goddess Moon,* *A Spurious Death in a Foreign Country*, and *A Death by the Sea.* *Soon to Be a Minor Motion Picture,* *Mother Naked,* and *Dr Jesus and Mr Dead* are also available as ebooks at bn.com and Amazon.com. MudLuscious Press issued the chapbook *Dr Polidori's Sketchbook* in 2010. I was also the translator of *Chinese Checkers: Three Fictions by Mario Bellatin* (Ravenna, 2006, http://ravennapress.com/books/title.p...) and co-translator (and jacket illustrator) of *A Heron in Buenos Aires* (http://www.ravennapress.com/books/tit...), poems by Luis Benitez. My fiction has appeared in *New York Tyrant*, *Keyhole*, the anthology *Shadows and Silence* (http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/atp66shadow...) and other magazines.

My poetry appears under the name Cooper Esteban or Cooper Esteban Renner. *Florid Victorian Ornament* and *Mosefolket* (http://ravennapress.com) are both available from Ravenna Press. *Jove Protected by Geese* was published in 1999 as a hand-made limited edition by Deron Bauman at elimae books. Most of its poems are included within *Mosefolket*. ...more

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	Dr. Polidori's Sketchbook (chapbook) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death by the Sea (The Wolves of Malta Book 1) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dr Jesus and Mr Dead 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Tommy Plans 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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An excerpt from my novel *Dr Jesus and Mr Dead* is now downloadable at http://cooprenner.com/drjesus.html
The excerpt includes the complete prologue and sections of two chapters, one each from book one and book two. The novel deals with the bubonic plague and a diabolic character who loves to spread pain.

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Published on April 04, 2011 18:22 • Tags: black-death, bubonic-plague, faith-healing, immortality, literary-fiction, new-mexico, religion, suspense, thriller

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“And I don’t believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it “a day will come.” And one day it will come. Well, probably it won’t come, since they’ve always destroyed it for us…. It won’t come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can’t believe in it anymore then I can’t write anymore either.”
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