To be at Music

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To be at Music is written by Norma Cole and published by Omnidawn. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1890650447 (ISBN 10) and 9781890650445 (ISBN 13).

In one of her essays--really an insufficient word for these experimental thought-montages--Norma Cole describes translation as "a record of the encounter." What we get in To Be At Music is the record of Cole's Profound encounters with the works and lives of Oppen, Blanchot, H.D., Niedecker, Jabes, Blaser; the paintings of Stanley Whitney and Marjorie Welish; the hard facts of contemporary history. What marks all these pieces is a marvelous openness. Instead of delivering neatly packaged conclusions, Cole invites us to participate in her thought process, to become active collaborators in the making of meaning.--Raphael Rubinstein, art critic for Art in America and author of Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002 --Book Jacket.