<DIV><p>"Illuminated, feral, Kocot's creativity engenders an excitement comparable to being twelve years old, exposed to good poetry or music or art for the first time. . . . One can't help but to be unsteady, but believe in that instability. . . . She leaves us hanging in the best way: always about to fall, always about to be saved."?Nick Sturm, <I>Coldfront</I></p><p>"Characterized by an utter irreducibility, Noelle Kocot's poetry displays an elemental movement of thinking and suggests a poetics of vision."?Jean-Paul Pecqueur, <I>Rain Taxi</I></p><p>Noelle Kocot's poetry resets hierarchies in favor of a world outside of time or telescope. <I>Soul in Space</I> is a masterful combination of Kocot's intimacy and authority over poetic form, and leaves a brighter and weirder world in its wake.</p><p><I>But now, back to our story,</I></p><p><I>It has coffee in it, a naked river.<BR>Blessed are we who rapture</I></p><p><I>An electric wire, blessed be<BR>The falling things about our faces,</I></p><p><I>Blessed is the socket of an eye<BR>That lights the body, because</I></p><p><I>In the end, in the very end, it's<BR>Just you. You and you. And you.</I></p><p><B>Noelle Kocot</B> is the author of six collections of poetry. Her work has been featured in <I>The Best American Poetry</I> (2012 and 2013) and in <I>Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology</I> (edited by Paul Hoover). She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the Fund for Poetry, and the <I>American Poetry Review</I>. She lives in New Jersey.</p><BR></DIV>