A tragic narrative journey through a New York wasteland and a warning to a city and a world in danger, Noelle Kocot's third book has the prophetic immediacy of Ginsberg's "Howl" and the urgent clarity of Langston Hughes. As a poet who has achieved success in the realms of both grassroots popularity and national critical attention, Kocot is poised to claim her place as America's boldest new poetic voice.
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Through an opening in a honeycomb
To remind you that before all else we are animals full of music
Tethered to the contradictions of this world
Noelle Kocot is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006), and she is the recipient of numerous awards. She lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
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