NORMA COLE S books of poetry include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988 2008, Spinoza in Her Youth and Natural Light, and most recently Actualities, her collaboration with painter Marina Adams. TO BE AT MUSIC: Essays & Talks made its appearance in 2010 from Omnidawn Press. Her translations from the French include Danielle Collobert s It Then, Collobert s Journals, Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (edited and translated by Cole), and Jean Daive s A Woman with Several Lives. She lives in San Francisco.
"I think deeply that Win These Posters comes first of all from the voice and the modalities of its call. I also deeply think the poems come from the wall and modalities of shouting out like posters, announcements, notices, placards, tags, graffiti, in short anything that cries out, calls, protests exactly like Mayakovsky's posters/signs that set the revolutionary crowds on fire." --Jean Daive, author, Under The Dome "The tokens offered here, the 'prizes inside,' are the gifts of instruction that Norma Cole has fought so tenaciously to provide us with." --Ammiel Alcalay, author, A Little History "Norma's vision is of a world of ordinary violence mixing with ordinary life, but also of an extreme violence raping the soul. That vision has here surpassed her own intellectual powers, which are amazing, has traversed ages and galaxies, and moved by a seldom encountered profound tenderness for the pain of living, has reached the ultimate unity between mind, heart and events, in words that leave us totally disarmed." --Etel Adnan, author, Sea and Fog
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