![]() ![]() "Early in these pages Norma Cole quotes Hafez as a warning to the gentle reader-that in fact or in practice, 'under every deep / a lower deep opens'-and this book, this incredibly diagrammed advisory concerning both 'fate' and 'news,' plumbs startling depths and arrives at its nal moments with Ornette Coleman’s question-'What do you expect?'- and with Tassadit Yacine’s approximation of Amrouche’s uncomfortable acceptance of Algerian identity-'I am the bridge.' In between, Norma Cole diagrams an astonishingly intricate map of power, the “angel standing in the sun” that John mentioned in Revelations, and how its loci are, again, in fact and practice wide-ranging. Her visual work has been shown at the Miami University Art Museum, in San Francisco, “Way Bay,” at the Berkeley Art Museum and most recently her film, “By the Turning Bridge,” at Arion Press, San Francisco, and NIAD, Richmond, California. She curated a show by Marina Adams at Cue Arts in NYC and collaborated with Adams in BOMB 114, Winter 2011. ![]() Her awards include the Fund for Poetry, Gertrude Stein Award, the Richardson Award for Non-Fiction Prose and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award for Poetry. Her translations from the French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then, Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (edited and translated by Cole), and Jean Daive’s White Decimal. ![]() Other books include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008, Spinoza in Her Youth, TO BE AT MUSIC: Essays & Talks and Actualities, her collaboration with Marina Adams. Her most recent book of poetry is Fate News. Norma Cole is a poet, visual artist and translator. ![]()
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