These rich and rigorous poems delight in and disrupt the framing structures of language, memory, and history, so as to inhabit new fluencies of possibility. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter
The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, Where Shadows Will selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter, and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of the
Spoken in the voice of common, but charged, language—that of posters, announcements, and graffiti—this collection of poetry balls up brief and potent images to be passed back and forth between unlikel
Norma Cole says that "a poem is a made place, a deedless deed that stakes out or constellates ambiguity without laying claim to it, without attempting to master or contain it." She has here assembled
Poetry. The newest title by the well-know Bay Area writer and translator,Norma Cole, is a CD-ROM. "Norma Cole's multimedia CD-ROM, SCOUT, mightbe a memoir without the meme, or the map of a place in me
Cultural Writing. Poetics. There are conversations embedded in these pages, a kind of cross-talk through time and space. Texts, interviews, critical pieces, journal entries, letters, worknotes and at
From one of America’s finest experimental poets, this translation of a contemplation of the life of Lorine Niedecker, a stellar American poet of the mid-twentieth century. This work stands as a monume
Poetry. Art. In this lambent collaboration, visual artist Marina Adams echoes the spareness of Norma Cole's language with delicate lines that contour muscular negative spaces, sometimes stark and dens
Poetry. Translated from the French by Norma Cole. The first English translation of this French poet, now an influence on many young American poets, who died at the age of 37 in 1978. Beverly Dahlen co
Commissioned by a troupe of poetic commandos known as Les Souffleurs” (The Whisperers), Franck Andre Jamme first generated a series of lists designed to slow down the world.” He then wove them togethe
