false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139879.jpg 139879 1 <p>C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.</p><p><i>Cooling Time</i> is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected memoir-poem-essay about contemporary American poetry. Ever focused on <i>possibilities</i>, Wright demonstrates that "the search for models becomes a search for alternatives," and thereby defines the terms by which poets can chart their own course.</p><p><i>These are some of the things I have touched in my life that are forbidden: paintings behind velvet ropes, electric fencing, a vault in an office, gun in a drawer, my brother's folding money, the poet's anus, the black holes in his heart-where his life went out of him</i>.</p><p><i>Tell me, what is the long stretch of road for if not to sort out the reasons why we are here and why we do what we do, from why we are not in the other lane doing what others do</i>.</p><p><i>Poetry is like food remarked one of my first teachers, freeing me to dislike Rocky Mountain Oysters and Robert Lowell. The menu is vast, the list of things I don't want in my mouth relatively short</i>.</p><p><b>C.D. Wright</b>, author of nine books of poetry, teaches at Brown University. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with poet Forrest Gander.</p> 134843 1 2 2005 Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil total:86|5:45|4:30|3:9|2:2|1:0| 86 376 121 10 5 0 false false Wed Dec 05 19:45:59 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 29 15:50:40 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 05 18:52:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 17 17:43:28 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 17:43:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 04 10:51:43 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 08:32:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 08:10:47 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 08:12:41 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 10:51:44 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 10:53:03 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Aug 26 20:16:42 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 20:16:42 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 10:19:59 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 10:19:59 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Fri Jul 06 18:41:15 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 08:23:01 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Apr 07 11:02:55 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 11:04:23 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jan 19 15:28:24 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:58:42 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 16:46:15 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:45:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:45:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:48:21 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 12:29:03 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:18:49 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:18:55 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 17:19:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 17:19:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 07:54:20 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 07:54:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 11:59:29 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 11:59:29 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Sep 12 12:25:50 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 20:40:07 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:25:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 07:19:23 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 20:57:05 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 07:19:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 15:23:21 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 15:23:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 03 19:01:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 19:01:07 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=139879