Of The Raving Fortune, David Shapiro says: "Dark matter and dark energy disturb the physicists. Noelle Kocot is already at ease with a split universe. She orchestrates her good wild poetry with an old constancy. But the usual contiguities don't hold; and the usual figures are defiantly cut apart. It's as if Jackson Pollock had splashed objects not paint—and didn't he? This all-overness in Kocot's poetry is overwhelming, full of doors after doors after doors, caprices, gardens and motives--and her unwavering voice."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I • To the Place in My Head Where Ideas Come From: • Passing Over Water • I am the Supernova of Your Psalmistry • Blankness, Much • There is a Tiara Dripping from the Skylights • Walking in the Light • A Sure Sign that I've Been Here • Over, Under, Through, With • Beginner's Mind and Purple Plants • Horse Sense and the Evolving Breeze • I'm the Church You Should Go to More Often But Don't • Furor Poeticus • Poem Written in 17 Minutes • Sprich Auch Du • The Planning of a Park • Garbage Art • I Refuse to Wear Life Like a Loose Garment • Two Poems for Franz Wright • Color #5 • The Map • II • The Newlyweds and the Funny Papers • In Sunlight • Love, Alters, Everything • Evening with the Financial Report • The Maddest Kind of Love • The Word Starts with an E • Consolations Before an Affair, Upper West Side • Why We Go to Couple's Counseling • A Lived Experience • Rondeau • Winter Dedication • Nocturne • Weird Wife • The Raving Fortune • III • Rushing Through the House I Behold the Numinous Dark of Forks, The Light-Bearing Phenomenology of Sunrise • From Bellevue Aquarium • I am No Longer a Mystic • Try Anyway • The Whole Arcana From the Fool to the World • Kyrie Elison • Running with Closed-Circuit Breath • Red Poem • The face I had before I was born • Ground Zero, Union Street Subway Station, August 1997 • Some Meditations on Baboon Living • I Don't Think I'll Ever Write This Poem • Civilization Day
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NOELLE KOCOT was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Oberlin, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, and her first collection, 4, was the winner of The Four Way Books Levis Prize, selected by Michael Ryan.
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