96 Pages. Released January 23rd, 2024.

“In Splash Fields, Joseph Cooper picks up where James Tate left off in such books as Memoir of the Hawk and The Government Lake. Like Tate, Cooper creates a memorable wacky first-person narrator, a flaneur of sorts, wandering an imaginary landscape peopled with odd unpredictable characters—a landscape where just about anything can happen. Splash Fields is satire at its best, all delivered in a deadpan voice with pitch perfect dialogue between his characters, so that you never question the reality of this Cooperesque world—one which I am beginning to think may be more sane and entertaining than the supposed real one we currently occupy.”

—Peter Johnson