Uses numbers and a space-age version of "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" to introduce information on space flight, the solar system, and outer space

Blast-Off!: A Space Counting Book

Cole, Norma

Children's Books

Demco Media

When the Tennessee Valley Authority builds a dam at Wolf Creek to bring electricity to Tollers Ridge, everyone in Geneva's family prepares to move to highr ground except for Granny who refuses to leave her home.

The Final Tide

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Margaret K. McElderry

The inaugural volume in the new Spotlight poetry series, Where Shadows Will selects from twenty years of innovative poetry by writer, painter and translator Norma Cole. Cole has been a fixture of the Bay Area scene since 1977, writing melodic and experimental poetry whose shadow-haunted landscapes embody an exploration of the relationship between language, self and world. Cole was a member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan and a fellow traveler of the language poets. Drawing on long out-of-print volumes and recent books—such as her acclaimed Spinoza in Her Youth (2002)—Where Shadows Will confirms Cole’s place as a major avant-garde poet and a leading voice among contemporary women writers.

Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight)

Poetry

City Lights Publishers

Charlesbridge Pub Inc

Blast Off!: A Space Counting Book

Have you ever wished you were an astronaut? Blast off on a counting adventure in outer space! You'll see a planet with more than sixteen moons, count stars up to a trillion, and discover how our sun was made. This counting book is for those who dare to count where no one has gone before. BLAST OFF! combines informative text with numbers ranging from 0 to 20 to one trillion! As they count, young readers experience the life of an astronaut and visit each planet in our solar system. The remarkably detailed and realistic illustrations transport us into space for an amazing voyage.

Charlesbridge

Have you ever wished you were an astronaut? Blast off on a counting adventure in outer space! You'll see a planet with more than sixteen moons, count stars up to a trillion, and discover how our sun was made. This counting book is for those who dare to count where no one has gone before. BLAST OFF! combines informative text with numbers ranging from 0 to 20 to one trillion! As they count, young readers experience the life of an astronaut and visit each planet in our solar system. The remarkably detailed and realistic illustrations transport us into space for an amazing voyage.

Poetry. "The words here, in their angular and exploratory relations, their displacements, as if composing thought. Or as if recomposing the world - picturing it from its missing parts. Once we might have sworn we'd met these words before. This extraordinary gathering proves otherwise"-Michael Palmer.Poetry. " Norma Cole's writing is thoughts, poems, and 'letters' with an open-ended quality. Lit is in process, without endings: Method will find the right name for this 'brightness in the air'" -Leslie Scalapino.

Metamorphopsia

Potes & Poets Press

The year is 1948. Geneva Haw, fourteen, is a fun-loving colt of a girl whose galloping gait, mischievous spirit and love for a secret game of marbles with her boy cousings constantly frustrates her mother's attempts at molding Geneva into a young lady. Geneva lives with her mother and father, neighbors and kin in Kentucky's Cumberland River Valley, where Haws have lived "since Daniel Boone showed them the way." But Geneva's father and uncle know they will be working the soil there for the last time in the spring of 1948. The regular flooding of the Cumberland, which before has always left them "new treasures for the earth," will soon, with the completion of the Wolf Creek Dam, give way to a tide that eventally rises "almost to the top of the mountains," covering forever the homeplaces and gardens, roads and paths, church an burying ground they have known. 
Geneva has heard that a "final tide" is coming with the completion of the dam at Wolf Creek, where folks say "gov-ment men filled a place between two mountains full of concrete an' dirt," but that's something she has trouble imagining. She sees the shadow of the final tide on her father's spirit, but understands little of the loss he already feels at the thought of leaving the land that is his legacy. Geneva wistfully longs to go to high school like the city kids, to wear the brown and white saddle shoes she's seen in the catalog, to get her hair cut and "curled up with a permanent" like her cousing Alice plans to do when her family moves to town. 
Her Granny Haw, however, is determined to keep a promise to her departed husband to be buried beside him, and insists that she will neither permit his remains to be moved nor leave her beloved homeplace and her mysterious "treasures in blue jars." Only after the grave movers leave the churchyard and burying ground in chaos does Geneva begin to realize the extent of the changes to come and the losses her family faces-and to fully understand that she must help her Granny bow to the inevitable final tide and find a new home and happiness elsewhere.96

Jesse Stuart Foundation

Mars

Listening Chamber

poetry, w/original cover collage by Jess 

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Blast-Off!: A Space Counting Book

The Final Tide

Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008 (City Lights Spotlight)

Blast-Off!: A Space Counting Book

Blast Off!: A Space Counting Book

Blast Off!: A Space Counting Book

Metamorphopsia

The Final Tide

Mars

Mars