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The Town of Insomniacs by Rosetta Marantz Cohen

$14.99

 

“Because I cannot control it, the sun rises,” declares Cohen’s steely-eyed speaker.  Looking darkly to past and future as well as “swimming in the molecules of the day,” these poems of sharp observation ask “What will become of us?” as they deftly deliver both irony and music.

–Ellen Doré Watson

 

The Town of Insomniacs by Rosetta Marantz Cohen is an engaging, brilliant new collection. The poet captures the truth that we all ask “What will become of us?”  We are all captives of “invisible labor:  ‘air itself being an intrusion / On space, laboring to prevail / Over emptiness.’” But nothing in this collection is empty. It is full of passion, honesty and fierce possibilities.

–Leah Maines, best-selling, award-winning author, editor, and Northern Kentucky University Poet-in Residence emerita

The Town of Insomniacs

***WINNER OF THE STARTING GATE AWARD***

by Rosetta Marantz Cohen

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-802-6

2018

Rosetta Marantz Cohen is Myra M. Sampson Professor of Education and Faculty Director of the Lewis Global Studies Center at Smith College. She received a BA in English from Yale University, an MFA from Columbia University and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia. Her previous chapbook (Domestic Scenes) was chosen my Maxine Kumin as winner of the Poets of the Foothills International Chapbook Competition. She is the author of five books on educational history and policy, including most recently, The Work and Lives of Teachers: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She lives in Northampton, MA with her husband, Sam Scheer.

 

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