The Raving Fortune

by Noelle Kocot

Of The Raving Fortune, David Shapiro "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."

Genres: Poetry

75 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

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.

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Reviews

[Dorothea · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite books of all time.

[Mia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't like as much as Poem for the End of Time...

[Luxagraf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Noelle Kocot is a great poet. If you live in New York keep an eye out, she sometimes reads in Brooklyn.

[Janie · Rating 4 out of 5]

a more patient, slower book for kocot, but still with unusual leaps of language / form. i love its risk and like its lean toward domesticity at times for that reason.

[Matt Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Freaking awesome. One of my top ten favorite living poets.

[Eric L · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still only on my second read- but kinda wanna make out with its imagination.I have a thing for the immeasurables. -Smashing-