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Cooper Renner

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Comics

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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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Average rating: 4.16 · 113 ratings · 28 reviews · 24 distinct works

	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
	Mother Naked 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 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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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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Too chatty, too long, but fans of his band and “classic rock” will find much of interest.
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Well written and full of interesting facts but simply too much. It just goes on and on. At 250 pages it would have been fine, but more than 400 pages of musings on aspects of German history is simply overload. I read almost 300 pages before surrender ...more
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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.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann

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