Sonnets

by Noelle Kocot

Speak of the moment: forget
About pain. The quiet flickering

Of the vowels makes your mouth
Water. The poisons inside blacken.

– ‘New Jersey Sonnet’

28 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2017

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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