Nicole Cooley
Author of Resurrection: Poems
About the Author
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans. She has published six collections of poems, including, most recently, Girl after Girl after Girl. Breach and Milk Dress, as well as a novel, a chapbook and a collaborative artist's book. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The North American Review, show more Narrative, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, and The Feminist Wire among other venues. She is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City University of New York and lives outside of NYC with her family. show less
Works by Nicole Cooley
Associated Works
The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (2003) — Contributor — 70 copies, 1 review
Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa (2024) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Cooley, Nicole
- Birthdate
- 1966-10-01
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Emory University (Ph.D, English)
- Occupations
- author
writer
professor (creative writing) - Organizations
- CUNY-Queens Department of English
- Awards and honors
- Elias Lieberman Award, Poetry Society of America, 1984, for best poem by a high school student; resident, Yaddo Corp., 1992, 1995; Annual Fiction Prize, Ambergris, 1993; resident, Ragdale Foundation, 1993; Discovery/Nation Poetry Award, 1994; grant from Georgia Arts Council, 1995; Walt Whitman Award, Academy of American Poets, 1995, for Resurrection; grant from National Endowment for the Arts, 1996
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Queens, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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Reviews
A strong collection that incorporates historical figures in fascinating directions and uses language in surprising and striking fashions. All of the poems are worth reading, as a collection or alone; many are worth coming back to.
A strange and fascinating novel, if not always entirely believable. Still, this is worth a read particularly if you were ever fascinated by Garland like the main characters here or if a search for identity or peace, or an indepth look to a struggling family relationship, are striking themes in your eyes. The language is poetic throughout, and the story itself a fascinating journey if hard to take at times.
Interesting poetry based on the Salem Witch Trials--this is worth coming back to as a collection for its historical record and interpretation. I'm not sure the poems hold up individually so much as I'd wish, but it is a strong collection with a few stand-out poems.
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- Works
- 9
- Also by
- 4
- Members
- 129
- Popularity
- #156,298
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 17