{"product_id":"alibi-lullaby-9781632431622","title":"Alibi Lullaby","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of poems that embrace musicality and locate the patterns of ancient songs in the body, nature, and world events.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alibi, in Latin, meant \"elsewhere,\" and \"lullaby\"--from lull, to soothe, and bye, near, close by--has elements linguistic elements that appear across cultures. Music, from ancient songs recorded on tables to contemporary compositions, share related framing elements that have persisted across time: formal patterns and rhythms, peaceful and hypnotic movements, and elements of terror arising from the moving frontier of \"thrill, dread, certainty.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this collection, Norma Cole considers the ancient and transcendent patterns of music, finding them through nature, heart sounds, the spectral elegance of blood flow, the murmur of melody, and many diverse patterns and beats. Sounds of summer, massacres, \"empathy through distress,\" unknowing, energy, suspense, and fragility echo throughout the poems and other writings. Drawing on a poetics that embraces formal freefall and looks forward while holding up the shifting mirror of memory, \u003ci\u003eAlibi Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical montage at the edges of musicality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorma Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of poetry books including \u003ci\u003eFate News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWin These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhere Shadows Will\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollective Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpinoza in Her Youth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eActualities\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with painter Marina Adams. Her translations from French include works by Danielle Collobert and Jean Daive. Cole has published poems in literary magazines including \u003ci\u003eGramma\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePosit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHambone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSulfur\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, and in anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eAmerican Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Experimental Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. Cole was born in Toronto, Canada, and she lives in San Francisco. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324576465170,"sku":"9781632431622","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bf3a135e-2ed7-423f-a71f-402c8bd51176.jpg?v=1748683224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alibi-lullaby-9781632431622","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}