Cole Swensen is the author of ten previous books of poetry including Goest, which was a National Book Award Finalist. She has also won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and a National Poetry Series selection, as well as grants for translating and writing. She is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
"One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry."--Library
Journal "Cole Swensen's The Glass Age is a masterwork . . . A
remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who
makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more
effortless . . . Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and
approach to the text clearly places her among the finest post-avant
poets we now have."--Ron Silliman "Seeing is believing sometimes,
but believing is almost always seeing, at least according to Cole
Swensen's long meditation on glass, windows, vision, and various
writers and artists who have used these in their work, especially
Bonnard, Apollinaire, Wittgenstein, Hammershøi, Saki, and the
Lumière brothers. Swensen provides us with an invaluable postmodern
retrofit of Keats's magic casements."--John Ashbery
"One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry."--Library
Journal"Cole Swensen's The Glass Age is a masterwork . . . A
remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who
makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more
effortless . . . Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and
approach to the text clearly places her among the finest post-avant
poets we now have."--Ron Silliman"Seeing is believing sometimes,
but believing is almost always seeing, at least according to Cole
Swensen's long meditation on glass, windows, vision, and various
writers and artists who have used these in their work, especially
Bonnard, Apollinaire, Wittgenstein, Hammershøi, Saki, and the
Lumière brothers. Swensen provides us with an invaluable postmodern
retrofit of Keats's magic casements."--John Ashbery
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