Ascent of the Mothers

Noelle Kocot (they/them) is the author of many collections of poetry, including God's Green Earth (Wave Books, 2020), Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, May 2016), Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of some of the poems of Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default (Wave Books, 2011). Their previous works include the discography Damon's Room, (Wave Books Pamphlet Series, 2010), Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009) and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006). They are also the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune (both from Four Way Books). Their poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2001, 2012, and 2013. They are the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. Kocot has taught at the University of Texas New Writers' Project and currently teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the New School. They live in New Jersey and are the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough.

Contents

 

Labyrinthitis

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Flowers

The Physical World

Divination

The Animals

George Bailey

I pray to be strong

Before a Shower

Drunk

At the Home

Instructions for the Wind

Song of Covid-19

Migraine

Crystal Gayle

A Fish

Delran

Poem for My Goddaughter Hannah

Ascetic, and the endless

Gravely Listening

Salvation

Ascent of the Mothers

Say It

When will I stop punishing

Letter to Eli

What is it that I am

Far wind chimes a tree

Out of Hiding

The trees humming

There is Darkness Over the Land

Disasters