Title: MECOX ROAD
Author: Marc Cohen
Cover design and art by Darragh Park
Publisher: The Groundwater Press, New York

Cohen's poetry is a kind of highly polished, metaphysical poetry (but firmly rooted in the realities of present-day urban existence). I think his is a unique voice which sounds like nobody else's, except perhaps the quieter lyrical poems of Hart Crane - one of the high points in twentieth-century poetry and a path which, curiously, few poets have chosen to follow. Whether or not Cohen has done so, his poetry hungers after the sublime in the same way Crane's does, without making any concessions to the ancillary graces and seductions of poetic language, yet achieving them almost fortuitously, through his intense concentration on the task at hand - the making of the poem.

-John Ashbery

These are poems that sparkle, and their inventive, adventurous spirit makes them an adventure also for the reader. All of them are full of a truthful, warm humanity; all are completely free of affectation and pomposity. They're full of mystery and curiosity. Unpredictable details, and insights you could never find for yourself, are set side by side in such a way that one brings out the brilliance of the other. The effect of this is constantly surprising. There are other poems which tell their story more plainly. But you have to read them all. Each poem is quite different from the others, in such a way that together they form a whole.

Anne Porter