The poems of Noelle Kocot's latest collection are ones of acute astonishment, tracking the intense spiritual and ecstatic elements that pervade the everyday world, the "fine surges of torrential / Probabilities" amid the "flotsam strewn under this compromised / Heaven." Bleak yet full of glory, these poems are a quest that showcase a poet at her visionary and poetic heights, where every turn of line, every sudden appearance, is one to arrest our attention and thought.
Price: $17.00
Pages: 80
Publisher: Wave Books
Imprint: Wave Books
Publication Date:
05 May 2020
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781950268023
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / American / General, POETRY / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, POETRY / Women Authors
There seem to be a few noteworthy poets in every generation, those who channel the zeitgeist from a clarifying distance, an artful remove. Noelle Kocot may well belong to this tradition.
—Amy Newlove Schroeder, Boston Review
Kocot's gift as a poet is being able to explain such complexity with such uncompromised frankness.
—David Peak, The Rumpus
Kocot's creativity engenders an excitement comparable to being twelve years old, exposed to good poetry or music or art for the first time, and knowing that, for better or worse, things have been bent.
—Nick Sturm, Coldfront Magazine
Noelle Kocot is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, May 2016), Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of some of the poems of 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 have been anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2001, 2012, and 2013. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, and she has taught at the University of Texas New Writers' Project and currently teaches part-time at the New School. She is the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.
Contents
The Work
Pemberton
Radio Stations
Paying Attention
The Exorcism
Trappings
Nostalgia
Shia LaBeouf
Grass
Transitions
The Joy of Living
Redemption
The End of Dignity
Fourth Day Awake
Retreat
There Is a Darkness over the Land
Letter to the Reverend Jane Brady
Groping toward the One Thing
Breakfast in Bed
What I Want to Tell You but Can’t
The Visit
A Kind of Refuge
The Ghost
Pressure Belt
The Secret Place
The Outcomes
Socializing
Wood
Poem for _____
Red Megaphone
Narcissism
Kitchen
I See Your Face before Me
Ode to John Cage
Autobiography
Paris
Church
Talking about Beauty
What I Wanted to Do
Gift
The Body
Reverence
Parents and Children
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Advent
Compassion IV
God’s Green Earth
Acknowledgments
