Publisher Description

"Illuminated, feral, Kocot's creativity engenders an excitement comparable to being twelve years old, exposed to good poetry or music or art for the first time. . . . One can't help but to be unsteady, but believe in that instability. . . . She leaves us hanging in the best way: always about to fall, always about to be saved."—Nick Sturm, Coldfront"Characterized by an utter irreducibility, Noelle Kocot's poetry displays an elemental movement of thinking and suggests a poetics of vision."—Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Rain TaxiNoelle Kocot's poetry resets hierarchies in favor of a world outside of time or telescope. Soul in Space is a masterful combination of Kocot's intimacy and authority over poetic form, and leaves a brighter and weirder world in its wake.But now, back to our story,It has coffee in it, a naked river.
Blessed are we who raptureAn electric wire, blessed be
The falling things about our faces,Blessed is the socket of an eye
That lights the body, becauseIn the end, in the very end, it's
Just you. You and you. And you.Noelle Kocot is the author of six collections of poetry. Her work has been featured in The Best American Poetry (2012 and 2013) and in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (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. She lives in New Jersey.

Author Biography

Noelle Kocot is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of poems by Tristan Corbiere, 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 currently lives in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

CONTENTSITalkThe StormApril in New JerseySpiritAbodeWake UpNew Moon EclipseNight ArborealMortotropismThe 4th Day After Quitting Cigarettes-IedNoticeLigetiOn the Debut of Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of TimeE.S.T.Here There is PeacePoem for New Jersey3/11/10Joy AddictTo NY, 3/8/10How I Know I Am Not Really LivingYou Know Who You AreNew Jersey SongWalking by Hope StreetDealing with the IncandescentNude AntsMosquitoTo Go HomeS.A.D.Dream of NYCAfter the FeedingSeagullsPoets are Feral BeastsHomePoemIIThere it stood, naked and ashamedWhether it says, you're sick, go to the doctorIt doesn't laugh enoughIt liked looking at pictures of catsIt liked reality almost as much as it liked the imaginationIt filed away its disasters and threw away the keyIt drove to a far away place where there was no waterIt is going on a long journey without socksIt found itself in a cloud of gnatsIIIPresentThe Super-MeadowPool SonnetBallerinasThe WarningThe DuckUncircumscribedHousewarmingReverence is OursAs Blossoms FallCircularThe EarthWithout OurselvesSome TimeFormalism on A Sunday AfternoonOntology KissedOeuvreThe GenesisBonehouseIVThose Nights Walking Home AloneI Was a Child OnceLettersI Love YouHoney, I'm HomeThe Rest is Assured in the BrightnessMarch SceneMap of Metuchen, NJAnniversaryQuartet for HumanityArrowYou Are a Vessel in This Poem, I Am a Vessel, TooOn Self-CenterdnessThree AfflictionsPoem for My Stepfather9.10.08Written on Our 18th Wedding AnniversaryThere Will Be No SignThe PoemFor My Parents on Their Wedding AnniversaryAt The Museum of Life SciencesCorazonTo a CriticThis is Your LifeThe MachineTreesThe Middle of March6 1/2 Years Trying to Understand Love Ends HereThe Hungry Ghosts of Flatbush AvenueChaos is InfiniteBeyond WiresThe BlueThe ProcessFor SorenThis is The Day

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• We will seek reviews in magazines and publications with a literary focus, including Poets and Writers, Poetry, Coldfront, Poetry Society of America, Pleiades, Jacket, and Rain Taxi.• Kocot plans to read with poets Joshua Beckman and Mary Ruefle in New York City and in the northeast, around the time of all three authors' new book releases in fall 2013.• Kocot has an active social media presence through facebook, and plans to promote her book personally through this outlet.• We will promote this title through pre-publication promotions, as well as on our author page, and through Wave's facebook and twitter accounts.• We will promote this title through emails to academics and bookstores in the northeast region, as well as to current subscribers to Wave's 2013 books.

Long Description

"Illuminated, feral, Kocot's creativity engenders an excitement comparable to being twelve years old, exposed to good poetry or music or art for the first time. . . . One can't help but to be unsteady, but believe in that instability. . . . She leaves us hanging in the best way: always about to fall, always about to be saved."--Nick Sturm, Coldfront "Characterized by an utter irreducibility, Noelle Kocot's poetry displays an elemental movement of thinking and suggests a poetics of vision."--Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Rain Taxi Noelle Kocot's poetry resets hierarchies in favor of a world outside of time or telescope. Soul in Space is a masterful combination of Kocot's intimacy and authority over poetic form, and leaves a brighter and weirder world in its wake. But now, back to our story, It has coffee in it, a naked river. Blessed are we who rapture An electric wire, blessed be The falling things about our faces, Blessed is the socket of an eye That lights the body, because In the end, in the very end, it's Just you. You and you. And you. Noelle Kocot is the author of six collections of poetry. Her work has been featured in The Best American Poetry (2012 and 2013) and in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (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 . She lives in New Jersey.

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Description for Sales People

* Kocot's work has been getting more attention. Her poems were featured in the Best American Poetry for 2012 and 2013, and in the soon to be published Norton Anthology, Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover. She also recently won a Lannan Literary Fellowship. * Critics have called her work visionary (akin to Allen Ginsberg's voice in "Howl" and W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming") and appealingly intimate. * This book was winnowed down from a much bigger body of work--about 1,500 poems--and reflects Kocot's rigorous and compulsive attention to "everyday" things. * The book's title is taken from a Randall Jarrell poem, "Seel im Raum" which means "Soul in Space" in German, about a woman experiencing a complete break with reality. Soul in Space reflects the author's own break with reality. * Soul in Space will appeal to Kocot's loyal readership, as well as a wider readership interested in poetry addressing loss, death, and daily living. * Videos of Kocot reading from her last book (at her own house) were featured on Publishers Weekly, HTML Giant, and Huffington Post.

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