{"product_id":"a-nightmare-on-horseback","title":"A Nightmare on Horseback","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cooperman\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in the less than mean and wild streets of Brooklyn, New York, playing, as a kid, stickball, street football, and basketball, all not very well, but very enthusiastically. After graduating from Brooklyn College with a B.A. and Long Island University with an M.A., in English, Cooperman headed west for the Ph.D. program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter graduating, he taught for five years at the University of Georgia, all the time continuing to write. His first collection was \u003cem\u003eIn the Household of Percy Bysshe Shelley,\u003c\/em\u003e published by the University Press of Florida. Cooperman’s second publication was \u003cem\u003eIn the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e (Western Reflections), which won the Colorado Book Award for Poetry in 2000, and which also cemented Cooperman’s love for all things about the Colorado Territory, especially a badman by the name of Mountain Jim Nugent, whom Cooperman renamed John Sprockett and has written extensively about his fictionalized adventures and misadventures. At one point Cooperman confided, “I’ve killed the son-of-a-bitch off three times, but he refuses to stay dead.” So he just rolls with tales about this “saint of violence.” Sprockett has appeared in four other collections: half murderous outlaw, half defender and avenger of the innocent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn addition, Cooperman won the Holland Award from Logan Street Press for \u003cem\u003eMy Shtetl,\u003c\/em\u003e a collection that drew upon his Jewish upbringing. \u003cem\u003eDraft Board Blues\u003c\/em\u003e (FutureCycle Press) was named One of Ten Great Books by a Colorado Author for 2017 by \u003cem\u003eWestword Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e It details Cooperman’s battle to keep from getting killed in the Vietnam War. Most recently, he has published \u003cem\u003eReefer Madness\u003c\/em\u003e (Kelsay Books), half about Cooperman’s misspent youth and half based on a newspaper article in the \u003cem\u003eDenver Post,\u003c\/em\u003e which stated that the Girl Scouts of Colorado had given approval for its member-troops to sell cookies outside Colorado marijuana dispensaries. You really can’t make this stuff up. Forthcoming from Apprentice House is Go Play Outside, Cooperman’s love song to basketball; and from FutureCycle Press, \u003cem\u003eBearing the Body of Hector Home.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCooperman lives in Denver with his wife, Beth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 130 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (October 18, 2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eBook Reviews:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Loch Raven Review\u003cbr\u003eLondon Grip Poetry Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43495334871101,"sku":"mma1787286754844","price":16.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1470\/9053\/files\/a-nightmare-on-horseback_1.jpg?v=1787286759","url":"https:\/\/ownstyleboutique.shop\/products\/a-nightmare-on-horseback","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}