Sunny Wednesday
By Noelle Kocot
2009
First Published
4.09
Average Rating
88
Number of Pages
Often breathtaking ... this latest collection from Kocot intersperses frantic images with hauntingly simple and loss-laden outcries. Throughout, there is the poet's thwarted longing for an understanding that cannot "all poets and poetry elude me,/ especially myself and my own"; Kocot's speaker—a voice simultaneously adorable, helpless and deeply brave—is both obsessed with and frustrated by "See, in a poem, things actually/ have to be doing things,/ not just floating around." ... Kocot's most lucid moments achieve a kind of visionary clarity ("The waters are very simple today./ Hospital blue, in error of twilight"), a beautiful refusal to accept the inevitable ("Listen, I said it before, die/ and come back as fire") and inklings of the kind of loss that could yield such a powerful, almost overflowing "I wait to go to you,/ smoking and breaking curses under/ the Jackson Pollock fuck you moon." — Publishers Weekly
Avg Rating
4.09
Number of Ratings
58
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Author
Noelle Kocot
Author · 9 books
Noelle Kocot is the author of four collections of poetry, with a limited-edition discography forthcoming in 2010, and a fifth full-length (The Bigger World) forthcoming in 2011. Her most recent full-length collections include 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). 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 currently lives in New Jersey. For more information on this author, go to: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/25-...
