Poetry. A highly respected translator from the French, San Francisco resident Norma Cole is equally respected for her own poetry, a body of work that manages to be both exacting and elegant. "Through all the frames of our various rhetorics, Norma Cole makes actual the powers of one's thinking this-and then that. She is a poet of consummate intelligence, a deft and compassionate company"-Robert Creeley. "Norma Cole's new volume both in title and in form speaks of relation.With this volume she reasserts her position as a major voice within contemporary poetry"-Andrew Benjamin.

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.

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