{"product_id":"where-shadows-will-selected-poems-19882008-city-lights-spotlight-01-9780872864740","title":"Where Shadows Will Selected Poems 19882008 City Lights Spotlight 01","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, \u003cem\u003eWhere Shadows Will\u003c\/em\u003e selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of the Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and experimental poetry whose shadow-haunted landscapes embody an exploration of the relationship between language, self and world. Cole was a member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan and a fellow traveler of the language poets. Drawing on long out-of-print volumes and recent books—such as her acclaimed \u003cem\u003eSpinoza in Her Youth\u003c\/em\u003e (2002)—\u003cem\u003eWhere Shadows Will\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Cole’s place as a major avant-garde poet and a leading voice among contemporary women writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviewed in: \u003cem\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eToronto Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJacket\u003c\/em\u003e (jacketmagazine.com), \u003cem\u003eInterim\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePleiades\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDoublechange\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eScout\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTraffic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHOW2\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWITZ: A Journal of Contemporary Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCompound Eye\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRhizome\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She is a poet of consummate intelligence, a deft and compassionate company, who may now not, in Robert Duncan's phrase, remember whether she 'read' or 'wrote' this wonderous book.\"—Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eShadows\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the continuity of [Cole's] efforts from poem to poem, book to book, year to year. . . [The collection] crystallizes questions from throughout Cole's career: to what extent is personal experience shared or universal, and what, exactly, is our 'backyard,' anyway? Ancient Egypt? The modern-day Congo? The entire solar system?\"—Chris McCreary, The Poetry Project\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some poets have a wide library of works, and you'll miss the brightest gems unless you look really closely. \u003cem\u003eWhere Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008\u003c\/em\u003e takes the best of Norma Cole's work from over twenty years, and places it all in one collection as part of City Lights' Spotlight series. An excellent collection to start the series with, \u003cem\u003eWhere Shadows Will\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry reader's delight.\"—James A. Cox, \u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cole's verse ranges vastly in form and subject, with a large selection of prose poems. Her dialogue with contemporary French poetry is especially evident . . . Even with a half-hearted listen, it's easy to tell that Cole’s poetry is different. \u003cem\u003eWhere Shadows Will\u003c\/em\u003e offers only the beginning of an introduction, a whetting of the palate.\"—Molossus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742346281303,"sku":"9780872864740","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872864740.jpg?v=1758384396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/where-shadows-will-selected-poems-19882008-city-lights-spotlight-01-9780872864740","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}