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Commissioned by a troupe of poetic commandos known as "Les Souffleurs" (The Whisperers), Franck André Jamme first generated a series of lists designed to "slow down the world." He then wove them together with an eye and an ear to the waltz. The result: an oneiric chain of vivid yet oblique verses, haunting, lovely, and insistently present.
Norma Cole
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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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