Everything

By Andrea Cohen

The poems in Everything, Andrea Cohen’s seventh collection, traffic in wonder and woe, in dialogue and interior speculation. Humor and gravity go hand in hand here. Cohen’s poems have the rueful irony of a stand-up comic playing to an empty room. But look around: there are wrecking balls, zebras, lovers, milk money. It’s a room to hang around in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Release date: Feb 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781945588808

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EVERYTHING

Andrea Cohen

Four Way Books

Tribeca

Every toy has the right to break.

—Antonio Porchia

for Razia

Copyright © 2021 by Andrea Cohen

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cohen, Andrea, 1961- author.

Title: Everything / Andrea Cohen.

Description: New York : Four Way Books, [2021] |

Identifiers: LCCN 2020037832 | ISBN 9781945588686 (trade paperback)

Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PS3603.O3415 E94 2021 | DDC 811/.6--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020037832

This book is manufactured in the United States of America and printed on acid-free paper.

Four Way Books is a not-for-profit literary press. We are grateful for the assistance we receive from individual donors, public arts agencies, and private foundations.

This publication is made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts

and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency,

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ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-80-8 (electronic)

Contents

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Wrecking