Often breathtaking ...this latest collection from Kocot intersperses frantic images with hauntingly simple and loss-laden outcries. Throughout, there is the poet's thwarted longing for an understanding that cannot come: all poets and poetry elude me,/ especially myself and my own ; Kocot's speaker--a voice simultaneously adorable, helpless and deeply brave--is both obsessed with and frustrated by process: See, in a poem, things actually/ have to be doing things,/ not just floating around. ...Kocot's most lucid moments achieve a kind of visionary clarity ( The waters are very simple today./ Hospital blue, in error of twilight ), a beautiful refusal to accept the inevitable ( Listen, I said it before, die/ and come back as fire ) and inklings of the kind of loss that could yield such a powerful, almost overflowing book: I wait to go to you,/ smoking and breaking curses under/ the Jackson Pollock fuck you moon. --Publishers Weekly
Noelle Kocot is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of poems by Tristan Corbiere, Poet by Default (Wave Books, 2011). Her previous works include the discography Damon's Room (Wave Books Pamphlet Series, 2010), 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). Her poems were included in the Best American Poetry anthologies for 2001, 2012, and 2013, as well as in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover. 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, as well as a residency fellowship from Lannan Foundation. She currently lives in New Jersey.
Title: Sunny Wednesday
Author: Kocot, Noelle
ISBN: 9781933517391
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Publisher: Wave Books
Publication Date: 2009-04-16
Number of Pages: 88
Weight: 0.0454 kg
Her subject matter is emotionally and chronologically close but she is the arbiter of distances, and an utterly contemporary product of the American culture she indicts. Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems devours any emotional connection to her subject and to the age, as if it is hers alone to devour. -The Gettysburg Review by turns humorous, icy and overwhelmingly sad -Publisher's Weekly Kocot has thought and felt through the language, rhythms and images of the
