Of The Raving Fortune, David Shapiro says: "Dark matter and dark energy disturb the physicists. Noelle Kocot is already at ease with a split universe. She orchestrates her good wild poetry with an old constancy. But the usual contiguities don't hold; and the usual figures are defiantly cut apart. It's as if Jackson Pollock had splashed objects not paint—and didn't he? This all-overness in Kocot's poetry is overwhelming, full of doors after doors after doors, caprices, gardens and motives--and her unwavering voice."

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NOELLE KOCOT was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Oberlin, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, and her first collection, 4, was the winner of The Four Way Books Levis Prize, selected by Michael Ryan.

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