Alibi Lullaby

<b>A collection of poems that embrace musicality and locate the patterns of ancient songs in the body nature and world events.</b><br>  <br> Alibi in Latin meant elsewhere and lullaby-from lull to soothe and bye near close by-has elements linguistic elements that appear across cultures. Music from ancient songs recorded on tables to contemporary compositions share related framing elements that have persisted across time: formal patterns and rhythms peaceful and hypnotic movements and elements of terror arising from the moving frontier of thrill dread certainty.<br>  <br> In this collection Norma Cole considers the ancient and transcendent patterns of music finding them through nature heart sounds the spectral elegance of blood flow the murmur of melody and many diverse patterns and beats. Sounds of summer massacres empathy through distress unknowing energy suspense and fragility echo throughout the poems and other writings. Drawing on a poetics that embraces formal freefall and looks forward while holding up the shifting mirror of memory <i>Alibi Lullaby</i> is a lyrical montage at the edges of musicality.<br>