The Room Where Summer Ends

by Peter Cooley

PETER COOLEY was born in Detroit. He attended Shimer College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Iowa. He lives with his wife and two children in New Orleans, where he teaches at Tulane University. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Virginia Quarterly Review, and numerous other magazines.

80 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1979

About the author

Peter Cooley (b. 1940) is an acclaimed American poet and a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. Cooley received his undergraduate education at Shimer College, where he enrolled via the school's early entrance to college program and graduated in 1962. His graduate education he acquired at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, where he also attended the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. As of 2012, Cooley has published nine volumes of poetry. (from Shimer College Wiki)