Stanley Cooperman was a New York City

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-born poet

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. Among his books are Cannibals and among his poems are "Masada". Cooperman was a co-signatory to the 1968 manifesto "Poet Power."

Born in New York City on October 22, 1929, Stanley Cooperman became a Canadian

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 citizen in 1972. Cooperman received his B.A. in 1951 and M.A. in 1955 from New York University

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 and his Ph.D. in 1961 from the Indiana University

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, where he also taught. He taught English at Simon Fraser University

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 from 1969 to 1976. He previously taught at Tehran University through a Fulbright Award

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, the University of Oregon

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 and Hofstra University

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.

Selected publications

• Ernest Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea, a Critical Commentary (Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1963).
• The Novels of Ernest Hemingway: A Study Guide (New York: Monarch Press, 1965).
• The Novels of F. Scott Fitzierald: A Study Guide (New York: Monarch Press, 1965).
• The Novels of John Steinbeck: A Study Guide (New York: Monarch Press, 1966).
• World War I and the American Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967)
• Owl Behind the Door (McClelland & Stewart, 1968)
• The Day of the Parrot and Other Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 1968)
• Cappelbaum's Dance (University of Nebraska Press, 1970)
• Cannibals (Oberon, 1972)
• Greco's Book (Vancouver: The author, 1974).
• Canadian Gothic and Other Poems (Intermedia, 1976)
• Greco's Last Book: Selected Poems (Intermedia, 1980). Edited by Fred Candelaria.