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Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight)
Norma Cole
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Description for Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight)
Paperback.
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 Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and experimental poetry whose shadow-haunted landscapes embody an exploration of the relationship between language, self, and world. Cole was a member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan and a fellow traveler of the language poets. Drawing on long out-of-print volumes and recent books-such as her acclaimed Spinoza in Her Youth (2002)-Where Shadows Will confirms Cole's place as a ... Read more
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 Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and experimental poetry whose shadow-haunted landscapes embody an exploration of the relationship between language, self, and world. Cole was a member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan and a fellow traveler of the language poets. Drawing on long out-of-print volumes and recent books-such as her acclaimed Spinoza in Her Youth (2002)-Where Shadows Will confirms Cole's place as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864740
SKU
V9780872864740
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About Norma Cole
Norma Cole is a poet, painter, and translator. Her recent books include Do the Monkey, Spinoza in Her Youth, and NATURAL LIGHT. Her translations include Danielle Collobert's Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah's The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen, and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. Born in Canada, Cole has lived in San Francisco since 1977.
Reviews for Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight)
Reviewed in: American Book Review, Chicago Review, Toronto Globe & Mail, Jacket (jacketmagazine.com), Interim, Pleiades, Doublechange, Scout, Traffic, HOW2, WITZ: A Journal of Contemporary Poetics, The Stranger, Compound Eye and Rhizome. "She is a poet of consummate intelligence, a deft and compassionate company, who may now not, in Robert Duncan's phrase, remember whether she 'read' or 'wrote' this wonderous book."—Robert ... Read more