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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Norma Cole Born in Toronto, Canada, Norma Cole received an MA in French from the University of Toronto in 1967, moving to France in time to absorb the revolutionary atmosphere of the May '68 general strike. Returning to Toronto in the early '70s, she migrated to San Francisco in 1977, where she has lived ever since. A member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan in the '80s, and a fellow traveler of San Francisco's language poets, Cole is also allied with contemporary French poets like Jacques Roubaud, Claude Royet-Journoud, and Emmanuel Hocquard. Her translations from the French include Hocquard's This Story Is Mine (Instress, 1999), Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (Burning Deck, 2000), Danielle Collobert's Notebooks 1956-1978 (Litmus, 2003), and Fouad Gabriel Naffah's The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen (Post-Apollo, 2004). Where Shadows Will, Selected Poems 1988-2008 was published by City Lights earlier this year. TO BE AT MUSIC: Essays & Talks will appear from Omnidawn Press in June 2010.

Forms of the Verb to Make Almost Always Include the Eye Norma Cole

Forms of the Verb to Make Almost Always Include the Eye for instance the bird is watching the eye or the eye is looking at the bird presence of the eye in the text is witness to having done the other is the stolen eye remembered the eye is often in the hand or is provided with a hand which might introduce light, a double chandelier permanent, ephemeral, the eye is what touches things collusion: to doubt is to touch so the hand supports the eye being an eye the hand can penetrate line or skin surface or space being in the eye tending towards vision use: let it be a drawing being careful a world without color sense is opposed to the literal sense hidden in it figure is description of world with portrait in it first geometry then portrait number, space, motion, gift custom is our nature by nature so different numbers imitate space experience study

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