Alibi Lullaby

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

A collection of poems that embrace musicality and locate the patterns of ancient songs in the body, nature, and world events. Alibi, in Latin, meant “elsewhere,” and “lullaby”—from lull, to soothe, and bye, near, close by—has elements linguistic elements that appear across cultures. Music, from ancient songs recorded on tables to contemporary compositions, share related framing elements that have persisted across time: formal patterns and rhythms, peaceful and hypnotic movements, and elements of terror arising from the moving frontier of “thrill, dread, certainty.” In this collection, Norma Cole considers the ancient and transcendent patterns of music, finding them through nature, heart sounds, the spectral elegance of blood flow, the murmur of melody, and many diverse patterns and beats. Sounds of summer, massacres, “empathy through distress,” unknowing, energy, suspense, and fragility echo throughout the poems and other writings. Drawing on a poetics that embraces formal freefall and looks forward while holding up the shifting mirror of memory, Alibi Lullaby is a lyrical montage at the edges of musicality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:172 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:92
Förlag:Omnidawn Publishing
ISBN:9781632431622

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Norma Cole is the author of poetry books including Fate News, Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, Where Shadows Will, Collective Memory, Spinoza in Her Youth, and Actualities, a collaboration with painter Marina Adams. Her translations from French include works by Danielle Collobert and Jean Daive. Cole has published poems in literary magazines including Gramma, Posit, BrooklynRail, Art in America, Hambone, Sulfur, and Conjunctions, and in anthologies such as American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry and Best American Experimental Writing. Cole was born in Toronto, Canada, and she lives in San Francisco.

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"A Canadian who has lived in San Francisco since 1977, Cole has been an important figure in the city’s poetry scene for decades. A teacher, translator, and painter, as well as the author of more than a dozen books, Cole brings an impressive skill with the chiaroscuro of obscurity and lit clarity to this sequence of lyric poems whose title (blurring law court and childhood bedroom) references a distancing of body and mind. Treating her readers as present and wakeful co-creators, Cole invites us, in the opening poem of Alibi Lullaby, to, 'Take a Look,' connecting observation to both 'history' and 'power,' where 'memory' is part of a 'truth cure—' (as the poet notes with characteristic wryness, 'it’s a start'). Edgy, whiplash quick shifts of tone and collage-like juxtapositions make this read or ride exciting."