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Spinoza in Her Youth
Norma Cole's rich and rigorous poems delight in and disrupt the framing structures of language, memory, history, so as to inhabit new fluencies of possibility. Informed by a diversity of subject matter (including emotional, political, philosophic), each poem finds its balance of form and content upon the knifepoint of a lyric integrity that is as responsive to the gravity of experience as it is to the fallibility of our means of representing it.
Natural Light
Poetry. This book of new poems by a modern master of the found and formulated, and an important translator, is divided into three sequences: "Pluto's Disgrace," "In Our Own Backyard," and "Collective Memory." Music controls the tone--"Here from the tap the heart beats"--as everyday life takes place under a political specter. The universe is taken as greater frame, allowing a human place. In the second section, prose intervenes, then back in the third to verbal play lightening the script. As the poet puts it: lessness. Personal, global, universal: all three shift and interlock in repeating cadences in these poems. Their lock on reality provides consolation for these times.
Moira
Fiction. "MOIRA has the complexity of both a mystery and a morality tale. It is ripe with poetic stratagems. Norma Cole has invented a liquid space where figures enter passageways (sections) of 'discovery rather than defining.' She examines appearances as if they were granular. She maintains an immaculate stance (and one of surprise) balancing a prose structure with poetry. And the agility with which she disrupts the book's linearity. As if a continual ticking were still heard in that interrupted space.. 'The pages were hidden in my mouth.' A 'pleated summing up' can only defer to the passageways of an exceptional book" - Barbara Guest.
Do the Monkey
Poetry. A highly respected translator from the French, San Francisco resident Norma Cole is equally renowned for her own poetry, a body of work that manages to be both exacting and elegant. Her new title, DO THE MONKEY, is complex and reflexive. Cole continues to create texts using her original and modern voice, but also recalls the past within this new form. This new collection is a beautiful addition to Cole's current volumes of poetry.
Actualities
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 densely foreboding, sometimes luxuriant with color. Norma Cole dialogues with Marina Adams with syncopated poems concerned with fragmentation, transformation, love, precarity, and the tenuousness of kinship between places, things, and being. In ACTUALITIES, poet and artist meditate in tandem, moving between anxiety and reconciliation, in a call and response with one another, and with a cosmos that continuously thwarts knowing, refusing to sit still. Actualities opens a charged space between beauty a...
Fate News
Topical poems that present the life of the mind--mourning and celebrating who and what is lost as time goes by
Metamorphopsia
Poetry. "The words here, in their angular and exploratory relations, their displacements, as if composing thought. Or as if recomposing the world - picturing it from its missing parts. Once we might have sworn we'd met these words before. This extraordinary gathering proves otherwise"-Michael Palmer.Poetry. " Norma Cole's writing is thoughts, poems, and 'letters' with an open-ended quality. Lit is in process, without endings: Method will find the right name for this 'brightness in the air'" -Leslie Scalapino.
To be at Music
In one of her essays--really an insufficient word for these experimental thought-montages--Norma Cole describes translation as "a record of the encounter." What we get in To Be At Music is the record of Cole's Profound encounters with the works and lives of Oppen, Blanchot, H.D., Niedecker, Jabes, Blaser; the paintings of Stanley Whitney and Marjorie Welish; the hard facts of contemporary history. What marks all these pieces is a marvelous openness. Instead of delivering neatly packaged conclusions, Cole invites us to participate in her thought process, to become active collaborators in the making of meaning.--Raphael Rubinstein, art critic for Art in America and author of Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002 --Book Jacket.
Where Shadows Will
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 major avant-garde poet and a leading voice among contemporary women writers.
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