Noelle Kocot recalls a break with reality that occurred a decade and a half ago in vivid, raw language, one word per line. The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense. There’s a cult following for her unique imagination, self-professed in a poem as “filled with pulchritude and peopleness,” and her seventh collection does not disappoint.
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Noelle Kocot is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Soul in Space (2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of poems by Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default (Wave Books, 2011). Her previous works include the discography Damon's Room (Wave Books Pamphlet Series, 2010), Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009) and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006). She is also the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune (both from Four Way Books). Her poems were included in the Best American Poetry anthologies for 2001, 2012, and 2013, as well as in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry and the American Poetry Review, as well as a residency fellowship from Lannan Foundation. She is the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.
Industry Reviews
Praise for Soul in Space Kocot is one of the more energetic poets working today and this books showcases her multifaceted talents. --Misfit Magazine Kocot's varied approaches and poetic devices seem in tune and consistent with this world she's created through her poetry. --Kelly M. Sylvester, NewPages There is so much to love about the subversive relations she draws between things. Kocot is a long awaited roar from the vatic side of poetry. --Evan C. Kleekamp, The Hype Critic The poems in Soul in Space, Noelle Kocot's sixth collection, spark across its pages like synapses firing in the brain. --Emily May Anderson, Your Impossible Voice Soul in Space is written by a poet of charming peculiarity and wisdom and whose poems are authored almost entirely by a homesick soul. --John Ebersole, The Philadelphia Review Praise for The Bigger World Kocot's ability to assemble the fragments of people's disintegrating lives is what makes these prose poems magnificent. --Amber Tamblyn, Bust Magazine The Bigger World is one of the most pleasurable reads this reviewer has encountered in some time... --Seth Abramson, Huffington Post
