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Coffee for Meg
Paperback
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jonathan Cohen is a natural storyteller with an eye for the lyrical moment: what he calls the irradiating gleam that can illuminate a secret world. He finds those gleams in diverse places:
an empty RV camp in the Adirondacks; a summer wedding interrupted by a fire alarm; memories
of a relative who played the horses and told the kids about knife fights. He is equally
bomber from the 1960s, killed in the uprising at Attica. Alert to the music of the colloquial and
the subtle magic of the everyday, Cohen's poems are - like the Chet Baker songs he admires -
wry, rueful, and enchanting.
-Sam Magavern, author, Primo Levi's Universe, Ovid's Creek, and Noah's Ark
Coffee for Meg is a luminous collection brimming with lyrical language, vivid imagery, and sharp insight. It is both an elegy to the past and a reflection on the fragility of the present. Cohen's poems paint a world filled with ghosts and fragments of memory, revealing how the past shapes the present, often in moments we barely notice at the time, when fleeting experiences take on myth-like qualities.
-Adele Evershed, author, Turbulence in Small Places, A History of Hand Thrown Walls
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