Justin P. Cooper

Albatross

Albatross is our poet.

Excelsior! posts by Albatross

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Birthday Flowers
memory-&-history, companions-&-kin, play-&-games, literary-entanglements, storyworlds-&-mythologies, ritual-&-transmission, garden, flower, love
Birthday Flowers
memory-&-history, companions-&-kin, play-&-games, literary-entanglements, storyworlds-&-mythologies, ritual-&-transmission, garden, flower, love

Albatross writes another birthday poem for his Bluebird.

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memory-&-history, companions-&-kin, play-&-games, literary-entanglements, storyworlds-&-mythologies, ritual-&-transmission, garden, flower, love
Hyde Park
travel, england, bird, climate-change, smartphone, infrastructure-&-maintenance, pattern-&-architecture, ecologies-of-attention, cartography-&-observation, companions-&-kin, naturecultures
Hyde Park
travel, england, bird, climate-change, smartphone, infrastructure-&-maintenance, pattern-&-architecture, ecologies-of-attention, cartography-&-observation, companions-&-kin, naturecultures

Albatross writes a poem upon the drought-dried lawns of London.

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travel, england, bird, climate-change, smartphone, infrastructure-&-maintenance, pattern-&-architecture, ecologies-of-attention, cartography-&-observation, companions-&-kin, naturecultures
Hootenanny
music, signal-&-noise, play-&-games, aesthetics-&-perception, entropy-&-order, companions-&-kin
Hootenanny
music, signal-&-noise, play-&-games, aesthetics-&-perception, entropy-&-order, companions-&-kin

We graduate from Rock Band to proper instruments.

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music, signal-&-noise, play-&-games, aesthetics-&-perception, entropy-&-order, companions-&-kin
Agnes Luckemeyer
language-&-translation, germany, literary-entanglements
Agnes Luckemeyer
language-&-translation, germany, literary-entanglements

An original translation of five (previously untranslated) Agnes Luckemeyer poems, from German to English.

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language-&-translation, germany, literary-entanglements
Protective Plants
Protective Plants

Albatross, Bluebird, Finch & Cardinal share the bibliography of their Planted Border research.

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The Basel Incident
animal, dog, cat
The Basel Incident
animal, dog, cat

Albatross imagines our dog Hector as a hardboiled detective, solving a case down at Art Basel Miami.

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animal, dog, cat
Schiaparelli Crater
technoscience, conflict-&-survival, storyworlds-&-mythologies, cartography-&-observation
Schiaparelli Crater
technoscience, conflict-&-survival, storyworlds-&-mythologies, cartography-&-observation

Albatross sings a song of Mars, as he sews twin sail-making tricoteuse into his plotline.

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technoscience, conflict-&-survival, storyworlds-&-mythologies, cartography-&-observation
West Village in Spring
music, poem
West Village in Spring
music, poem

Bluebird and Albatross collaborate on a poem from their favorite jazz club.

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music, poem
Age of the Sail
story, scifi, ocean, space
Age of the Sail
story, scifi, ocean, space

Albatross imagines a future world of solar sailing.

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story, scifi, ocean, space
The Button
button, short story
The Button
button, short story

Albatross’ story of a soldier and a button.

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button, short story
Drifting Lithophanes
art, clouds, sculpture
Drifting Lithophanes
art, clouds, sculpture

Finch examines a cloud-themed artwork by Bluebird & Albatross.

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art, clouds, sculpture
The Metaphorosis
bug, absurdism, short story
The Metaphorosis
bug, absurdism, short story

Albatross revisits the old Kafka story.

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bug, absurdism, short story