Some Angels Wear Black: Selected Poems

Narrative poems with straightforward, feisty sensibilities confront the difficulties and rewards of love: what one goes through to love and be loved. Social injustice ( Jury Duty ) and mortality ( Casual Hands, Brutal Stars, Past Things ) are recurrent themes, but love is always the driving force. Often funny, with a subtle sting, Coppola’s heartfelt writing reveals an unrelenting, courageous struggle with a progressive disabling disease ( Enlightenment and Muscular Dystrophy ).