Poetry. The newest title by the well-know Bay Area writer and translator,Norma Cole, is a CD-ROM. "Norma Cole's multimedia CD-ROM, SCOUT, mightbe a memoir without the meme, or the map of a place in memory not yetcome to. "The surface of the earth buckled. At that point you / thoughtof the fault as an error. These are the/ necessary conditions. You arethe error." Beautifully photographed in San Francisco and Toronto, andwith voiceover narration by the author, this release also includes aseries of full-size images of the artist's book that accompanied thefirst performance of the text in the year 1999. SCOUT writes, speaks,and sites personal history not as the stable ground that guaranteespresent experience, but as a return to a field like that of RobertDuncan's imagining, "a made place" that shifts the borders of possiblelocales as it shifts among them"--Taylor Brady. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 98 and higher, Mac OS 9.2 and higher, and Mac OS 10.1 and higher. Screen resolution of at least 1

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.