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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Peter Cooley |
 | | Cooley has been collecting his words and shaping them into poems published, since the 1960s, in more than two hundred distinguished journals, in seven full-length volumes, and in anthologies. |
 | | His poems are inventions that have their genesis in personal incidents, sensations, perceptions, and passions, and that take place in real and imagined landscapes and dreamscapes where he is keenly aware, as he observes, of actual and symbolic light. |
 | | These poems, observes Cooley, don't have a landscape of actuality outside in the same way in which the poems do in the later books, where the landscape outside is in the South, and New Orleans especially. |
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