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In her seventh collection, Kocot strings one word per line into dark and dazzling recitals of her capacity for emotion.
List of contents
The Ache That Never Goes Away
Money
Uncharted Territory
Limitations
Healing
Masses
On Paul V¿s Birthday
Lovers Unreal
Life Is Beautiful
The Future
Health
Crazy
Coral
Record Keeper
Yarn
(____)
Virgin
Stains
Blood
Skin
Moon
Sunstorm
Wings
Hamilton
Reform
Quotient
Outtakes
Toes
In Sickness
The Stars
Dementia
The Mall
Cruelty
Addict
The Gone World
Crossbows
Funeral Candy
It¿s All Right
No Witnesses
Pills
Late Fallacy
Opportunity
About the author
Noelle Kocot is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Soul in Space (2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of poems by Tristan Corbière, 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 is the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.
Summary
In her seventh collection, Kocot strings one word per line into dark and dazzling recitals of her capacity for emotion.
