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Alibi Lullaby

Alibi Lullaby

Cole, Norma

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1632431629
ISBN13: 9781632431622
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: Apr 24 2025
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A collection of poems that embrace musicality and locate the patterns of ancient songs in the body, nature, and world events.

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.

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, Alibi Lullaby is a lyrical montage at the edges of musicality.

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