All timing all the time! Fate News is poetry in the crosshairs of action (kairos) and clock time (chronos). With a topical setlist in four sections, “Local,” “On-Going,” “Stay Songs,” and “Harmolodics,” Fate News relentlessly pierces the surface of lyric gesture. Its osmotic exchanges and searching encounters vibrate with the clarity of fiercely delicate shouts and murmurs, undertones and overtones. The vision of “Mount Fiasco” is on fire.
Blurbs for Fate News
Fate is everything. It is the past, love, destiny, the future. At a certain point it comes to fruition, as here in Norma Cole’s Fate News. Working her words through an ecstatic synesthesia, and with her signature deftness, Cole guides her lines directly into your heart. You see and sing with them. Each right word takes your breath away. ‘Saturation—the world is/its own music in awe and //space and not flat these/dynamics of rising’ ‘Two futures coincide’—the lucky reader and this book
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