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 (born May 12, 1945) is a contemporary American poet, visual artist, and frequent translator from the French. She received her M.A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. A Canadian by birth, Norma Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977. For nearly twenty years, Norma Cole's work has received great acclaim for her: "openness to traditions and practices, artists and writings, radically divergent from her own". Recently, she collaborated with The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at SFSU in honor of their fiftieth anniversary. There she helped to create a site-specific gallery installation titled Collective Memory which opened on December 11, 2004 and ran through April 16, 2005. The project was described as: Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Gerbode Poetry Prize and a grant from the Fund for Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. "The Poetics of Vertigo"--delivered as the 1998 "George Oppen Memorial Lecture"---won the Robert D. Richardson NonFiction Award. With Boston photographer Ben E. Watkins she won the Purchase Award for the photo/text collaboration, "They Flatter Almost Recognize".