Friday September 18 @ 7 p.m.
Central School in Old Bisbee
http://www.centralschoolproject.org/exhibits.html
Norma Cole is the author of numerous books of poetry including Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight), Do the Monkey (Zasterle, 2006), Spinoza in Her Youth (Omnidawn, 2002), Moira (O Books, 1995), and My Bird Book (Littoral Books, 1991).
As a visual artist Cole has worked in a variety of mediums. Her House of Hope, featured as part of IM- AGEworks/WORDworks, is a suspended sculpture collecting 426 quotes gathered from the artist's notebooks over the past 20 years. Part of the same project and also featured in the exhibit is the fine- press book titled Collective Memory, published by Granary Books (2006), spotlighting in text, photos and drawings the creative process of imagining poetry within a variety of environments. Cole has been the recipient of awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2006) and The Fund for Poetry (2003, 1999, 1994) as well as a Purchase Award for "They Flatter Almost Recognize", a collaboration with photographer Ben E. Watkins (1994), and the Gertrude Stein Award (1995-96, 1994-95, 1993-94).
She teaches at San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco, and in the MFA pro- gram at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived for the past twenty years.
Review of Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988--2008 from Publisher's Weekly: "A disciple of Robert Duncan, Cole casts her short poems in jagged verse and prose blocks, by turns abstract ("Imaginations law hits frames"), surreal ("Bark grew up over their faces") and painterly in a manner that will be familiar to fans of Barbara Guest: "This is the image of effort." Other pieces work more like disjunctive fables: one such prose poem describes how "A little of life simply escapes from a shallow dish." Cole is far better known on the West Coast and in experimental poetry circles than any- where else; in fact, her work is surprisingly accessible given its avant garde origins and ambitions-- beautiful phrases and lines leap off the page ("Then his/ signature will have taken place," reads one poem)--and this concise gathering of poems from her 15 small press books should bring Cole much deserved attention."
A reception will follow the reading. This event is FREE and open to the public.
For more information, call Melissa Holden at 432-4866, or email info@centralschoolproject.org.
http://www.centralschoolproject.org/exhibits.html
Norma Cole is the author of numerous books of poetry including Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight), Do the Monkey (Zasterle, 2006), Spinoza in Her Youth (Omnidawn, 2002), Moira (O Books, 1995), and My Bird Book (Littoral Books, 1991).
As a visual artist Cole has worked in a variety of mediums. Her House of Hope, featured as part of IM- AGEworks/WORDworks, is a suspended sculpture collecting 426 quotes gathered from the artist's notebooks over the past 20 years. Part of the same project and also featured in the exhibit is the fine- press book titled Collective Memory, published by Granary Books (2006), spotlighting in text, photos and drawings the creative process of imagining poetry within a variety of environments. Cole has been the recipient of awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2006) and The Fund for Poetry (2003, 1999, 1994) as well as a Purchase Award for "They Flatter Almost Recognize", a collaboration with photographer Ben E. Watkins (1994), and the Gertrude Stein Award (1995-96, 1994-95, 1993-94).
She teaches at San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco, and in the MFA pro- gram at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived for the past twenty years.
Review of Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988--2008 from Publisher's Weekly: "A disciple of Robert Duncan, Cole casts her short poems in jagged verse and prose blocks, by turns abstract ("Imaginations law hits frames"), surreal ("Bark grew up over their faces") and painterly in a manner that will be familiar to fans of Barbara Guest: "This is the image of effort." Other pieces work more like disjunctive fables: one such prose poem describes how "A little of life simply escapes from a shallow dish." Cole is far better known on the West Coast and in experimental poetry circles than any- where else; in fact, her work is surprisingly accessible given its avant garde origins and ambitions-- beautiful phrases and lines leap off the page ("Then his/ signature will have taken place," reads one poem)--and this concise gathering of poems from her 15 small press books should bring Cole much deserved attention."
A reception will follow the reading. This event is FREE and open to the public.
For more information, call Melissa Holden at 432-4866, or email info@centralschoolproject.org.
...can't say I'll appreciate her work but all the same, it's good to be there once in a while. Readings at the CSP are where readings should be if they cannot be at the Sacred Heart anymore. Nice big auditorium with lots of seats and windows that still have old fashioned dowels and screens and it's dark in there. The weather no doubt will be fabulous as it always is on evenings in September in this glorious old town. After the reading a person can head on home, go to the Gulch or the Queen or the Grand or, like me, to the Coffee Shop down at the old PD Merc. Better yet, a person is advised to take a nice long walk through the town at night because there is just nothing that compares to a night time walk in Old Bisbee except maybe a Dilly Bar at the Dairy Queen in Bakersville. It's a toss up.
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