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Wyn Cooper (born January 2, 1957) is an American poet. He is best known for his 1987 poem "Fun", [1] which was adapted by Sheryl Crow and Bill Bottrell into the lyrics of Crow's 1994 breakthrough single "All I Wanna Do".
Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Maree Edith Cooper, a teacher's aide, and William Wendell Cooper, a tool-and-die machinist. [2] Cooper was raised in Michigan and attended the University of Utah (B.A., 1979), [2] Hollins College (M.A., 1981), [2] and later, the creative writing doctoral program at University of Utah. [3] [2]
He has taught at the University of Utah, Bennington College, Marlboro College, and at The Frost Place Festival of Poetry.[ citation needed ]
Cooper has served as editor of Quarterly West and recently worked for the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation.[ citation needed ] He currently works as a freelance editor of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and memoir.[ citation needed ]
His novel Way Out West was released in 2022. His earlier books are Mars Poetica (White Pine Press, 2018), Chaos is the New Calm (BOA Editions, 2010), Postcards from the Interior (BOA Editions, 2005), The Way Back (White Pine Press, 2000), and The Country of Here Below (Ahsahta Press, 1987).
Cooper's poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Slate Magazine , [4] Poetry , Orion, Gander Press Review , [5] Blackbird , [6] AGNI , [7] Crazyhorse, and Ploughshares [8] and are included in 25 anthologies[ citation needed ] of contemporary poetry.
One of his poems, Fun, [1] was used for the lyrics of the Sheryl Crow song, "All I Wanna Do".
"But in January 1993, Bill Bottrell and Kevin Gilbert, Sheryl Crow's producer and keyboard player, took a break from recording her first CD, Tuesday Night Music Club, for want of better lyrics to a tune they already had in mind. They went around the corner to Cliff's Books in Pasadena, [9] where they found a used copy of my book." — Wyn Cooper [10]
Crow's producer Bill Bottrell discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in Cliff's Books, a Pasadena, California used bookstore. Bottrell adapted Fun into the lyrics for her song when Crow could not come up with usable lyrics, earning Cooper considerable royalties, and helping to publicise his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints. [1] [11]
In 2002, Cooper's lyrics for a fictional band appeared in ex-college friend [12] Madison Smartt Bell's novel, Anything Goes. In 2003, the songs were put to music by Bell, [13] recorded [14] and produced by bassist Don Dixon, with Mitch Easter, [15] and percussionist Jim Brock [12] and released as Madison Smartt Bell and Wyn Cooper: 40 Words for Fear. [16] [11] [17] [18] [19] [15] The second CD, with percussionist Jim Brock and bassist/producer Don Dixon, from Bell & Cooper: [20] Postcards Out of the Blue, [21] was based in part on Cooper's book Postcards from the Interior, a suggestion by Dixon. [12] Their songs have been used on five television shows. [12]
Cooper has also written and recorded songs with David Broza, David Baerwald, and Jody Redhage.[ citation needed ]
Cooper resides in Boston, Massachusetts.[ citation needed ]
extracted from 'The Country of Here Below' (Contemporary Poetry of the West Series)
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Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and actress. She is noted for her optimistic and idealistic subject matter, and incorporation of genres including rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released twelve studio albums, five compilations, and three live albums, and contributed to several film soundtracks. Her most popular songs include "All I Wanna Do" (1994), "Strong Enough" (1994), "If It Makes You Happy" (1996), "Everyday Is a Winding Road" (1996), "My Favorite Mistake" (1998), "Picture", and "Soak Up the Sun" (2002).
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Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist. While established as a writer by several early novels, he is especially known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995–2004.
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William A. Bottrell is an American record producer and songwriter. He has collaborated with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Electric Light Orchestra and Sheryl Crow.
Richard Henry Wilde Dillard was an American poet, author, critic, and translator.
"All I Wanna Do" is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow. It was written by Crow, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, and Kevin Gilbert, with lyrics adapted from Wyn Cooper's 1987 poem "Fun". Released in July 1994 by A&M, it was Crow's breakthrough hit from her 1993 debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club. The song is Crow's biggest US hit, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks from October 8 to November 12, 1994, and it also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It was the winner of the 1995 Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was nominated for Song of the Year.
"Leaving Las Vegas" is a song co-written by David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Sheryl Crow, Kevin Gilbert, Brian MacLeod, and David Ricketts that appears on Crow's debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club (1993). It charted within the top 75 in the United States and the top 30 in Canada. Crow performed the song on her live album Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park.
Kenward Gray Elmslie was an American author, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School of poetry.
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