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

"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

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her recent poetry publications include 14000 FACTS, NATURAL LIGHT, WHERE SHADOWS WILL: SELECTED POEMS 1988-2008, SPINOZA IN HER YOUTH, and SCOUT, a text/image work in CD-ROM format. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert's NOTEBOOKS, 1956-1978, Anne Portugal's NUDE and CROSSCUT UNIVERSE: WRITING ON WRITING FROM FRANCE. She created 2004-6 Collective Memory, an installation, performance, and publication for "Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954-2004," California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA. Cole has received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, the Robert D. Richardson Nonfiction Award, as well as awards from the Fund for Poetry. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived for over twenty years.