Sunny Wednesday (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933517391)

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 come: "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 process: "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 book: "I wait to go to you, / smoking and breaking curses under/ the Jackson Pollock fuck you moon." --Publishers Weekly

Author: Noelle Kocot
ISBN-10: 1933517395
ISBN-13: 9781933517391
Publisher: Wave Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2009 pg. 110