To the Secret

Publisher Marketing: Commissioned by a troupe of poetic commandos known as "Les Souffleurs" (The Whisperers), Franck Andre Jamme first generated a series of lists designed to "slow down the world." He then wove them together with an eye and an ear to the waltz. The result: an oneiric chain of vivid yet oblique verses, haunting, lovely, and insistently present. Contributor Bio:  Jamme, Franck Andre Franck Andr Jamme has published twelve books of poems and fragments since 1981, as well as numerous illustrated books. In 2005, he won the Grand Prix de Po sie de la Societ des Gens de Lettres. His work has been praised by Edmond Jab s and Ren Char and translated by John Ashbery. Contributor Bio:  Cole, Norma Norma Cole (born May 12, 1945) is a contemporary American poet, visual artist, and frequent translator from the French. She received her M. A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. A Canadian by birth, Norma Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977. For nearly twenty years, Norma Cole's work has received great acclaim for her: "openness to traditions and practices, artists and writings, radically divergent from her own." Recently, she collaborated with The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at SFSU in honor of their fiftieth anniversary. There she helped to create a site-specific gallery installation titled Collective Memory which opened on December 11, 2004 and ran through April 16, 2005. The project was described as: Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Gerbode Poetry Prize and a grant from the Fund for Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. "The Poetics of Vertigo"--delivered as the 1998 "George Oppen Memorial Lecture"---won the Robert D. Richardson NonFiction Award. With Boston photographer Ben E. Watkins she won the Purchase Award for the photo/text collaboration, "They Flatter Almost Recognize."