Poetry. Based on American Sign Language, this collection of twenty-five short poems traces the connection between gesture and meaning, hand and thought. Composed of distilled fragments, each poem approaches a single word-window, animal, garden-as a physical act. Saddlestapled chapbook.
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.