Moira

by Norma Cole

Fiction. "MOIRA has the complexity of both a mystery and a morality tale. It is ripe with poetic stratagems. Norma Cole has invented a liquid space where figures enter passageways (sections) of 'discovery rather than defining.' She examines appearances as if they were granular. She maintains an immaculate stance (and one of surprise) balancing a prose structure with poetry. And the agility with which she disrupts the book's linearity. As if a continual ticking were still heard in that interrupted space.. 'The pages were hidden in my mouth.' A 'pleated summing up' can only defer to the passageways of an exceptional book" - Barbara Guest.

82 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Norma Cole is a poet, painter, and translator. Her most recent books of poetry include Fate News, Actualities, Where Shadows Will, and Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Her translations from French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then, the anthology Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France, and Jean Daive’s White Decimal. Cole lives and works in San Francisco.