Poetry. Cole Swensen, in this elegant suite, seems to slide a blade through the operatic repertory, not exactly a knife, more like a corkscrew, spiraling from one unpredictable scene to another. Her pitch is perfect, her tempo uncanny -- Keith Waldrop. Cole Swensen's PARK and NOON are also available from SPD.
Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Cole Swensen is a poet and translator of French poetry, prose, and art criticism. She is the founding editor of La Presse and a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow. She teaches at Brown University and divides her time between Providence, RI, and Paris.