Poetry. A tragic narrative journey through a New York wasteland and a warning to a city and a world in danger, Noelle Kocot's third book has the prophetic immediacy of Ginsberg's HOWL and the urgent clarity of Langston Hughes. As a poet who has achieved success in the realms of both grassroots popularity and national critical attention, Kocot is poised to claim her place as America's boldest new poetic voice: "Kocot has found a language for her emotions that pulls an abundance of memories, post-punk urban metaphors and manic verbal twists into her simultaneously cerebral and energizing universe"--Publishers Weekly.
Author City: NJ USA
Noelle Kocot is the author of five books of poetry. Her most recent full-length collections include THE BIGGER WORLD (Wave Books, 2011), SUNNY WEDNESDAY (Wave Books, 2009), and POEM FOR THE END OF TIME AND OTHER POEMS (Wave Books, 2006). She is also the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune (both from Four Way Books). She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry and the American Poetry Review. She currently lives in New Jersey.
Reviews and Other Links
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200611/?read=review_kocot
http://www.harpandaltar.com/interior.php?t=r&i=1&p=11&e=12
http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue08/reviews/thomas_fink.htm
http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com/2007/08/poem-for-end-of-time-and-other-poems-by.html
http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com/2006/11/poem-for-end-of-time-and-other-poems.html
http://jacketmagazine.com/33/johnson-kocot.shtml