Poetry. In the wake of Norma Cole's recent WHERE SHADOWS WILL: SELECTED POEMS 1988-2008 (City Lights Publishers, 2009), this new chapbook shows that this highly admired writer has no intention of slowing down. The book is a series of untitled, delicate, delightful poems of generally three (sometimes four) stanzas of generally two (sometimes three or more) lines. 14000 FACTS will be treasured equally by Cole completists and new students of her work: "atoms existing in / unparalleled worlds //as if to turn their / eyes from particular / stars."

Author Hometown: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA



About the author: 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.