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Ours by Cole Swensen

January 10, 2013 by Erica Mena

I sat down this morning to start Ours by Cole Swensen, and spent the whole morning reading it. That was not my intention. It was my intention to work some on my own writing, to translate a little perhaps, and to get some work done towards the launch of the Anomalous Press chapbook series, for which Cole was a judge. But I became so entranced by the book that I literally couldn’t walk away from it. I tried twice. One of […]

Categories: Reading Journal • Tags: andre le norte, Cole Swensen, gardens, ours, poetry, research poetry

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flare by cole swensen

January 9, 2013 by Erica Mena

I’ve happened to come across this gorgeous limited edition artist’s book with color illustrations by Thomas Nozkowski, and poems by Cole Swensen called flame. I thought I’d read most of Cole’s work, but hadn’t seen this one (from 2009) before. It’s a beautiful sequence of poems that work through the images (abstract, geometric in muted colors) and create a sort of historical-scientific landscape of the body, the sun, the sea and the sky. All of those might sounds like pretty […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal • Tags: Cole Swensen, flare, reading journal, thomas nozkowski

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