Norma Cole is a poet, translator, and visual artist. Her books of poetry include Actualities, Where Shadows Will, and Win these Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Born in Toronto, Canada, Cole lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.

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Other poems on the web by Norma Cole:
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Six poems

Norma Cole According to Wikipedia.

About Fate News:

"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. And, rife with a homegrown ambiguity, the poems expand—grim Halloween turns up twice like a bad penny, and the police turn up as well. But there's also a luminous bar of elegies for Tom Raworth, Bill Berkson, Leslie Scalapino, and David Bowie. ('Still Today' ends with a request or admonishment for Bill Berkson: 'So keep on / Proposing paradise.') And Norma Cole instructs, 'the world is / its own music in awe and // space and not at.' Fellow gentle readers, Fate News is good news for all of us."
—C.S. Giscombe