MOTHER VIPER: Poetry That Bites Back (and Leaves a Scar You’ll Cherish)

You know those books you read, close, and then immediately open again because you’re not ready to let them go? Yeah. MOTHER VIPER is one of those.

Savannah Cooper isn’t here to give you gentle metaphors wrapped in silk ribbons. She’s here to take you to Missouri’s back roads, introduce you to the ghosts that live there, and walk you through the moments that shape — and shatter — us. Childhood, faith, love, grief — it’s all in here, raw and unvarnished.

From peeling away the suffocating layers of Southern Baptist dogma to standing face-to-face with unbearable loss, these poems have teeth. But they also have a strange tenderness, the kind that lingers long after you’ve finished reading.

We could talk about her Pushcart Prize nomination, her 40+ published pieces, her photography — but really, all you need to know is this: Savannah Cooper writes like someone who has survived the fire and still knows how to make light.

MOTHER VIPER isn’t “nice” poetry. It’s necessary poetry. And if you’re the kind of reader who wants work that digs under your skin and refuses to leave, well… consider yourself bitten.

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