God's Green Earth

Noelle Kocot is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, May 2016), Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013), The Bigger World (Wave Books, 2011), and a book of translations of some of the poems of Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default (Wave Books, 2011). Her previous works include the discography Damon's Room, (Wave Books Pamphlet Series, 2010), Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009) and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006). She is also the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune (both from Four Way Books). Her poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2001, 2012, and 2013. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, and she has taught at the University of Texas New Writers' Project and currently teaches part-time at the New School. She is the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.

• ContentsThe WorkPembertonRadio StationsPaying AttentionThe ExorcismTrappingsNostalgiaShia LaBeoufGrassTransitionsThe Joy of LivingRedemptionThe End of DignityFourth Day AwakeRetreatThere Is a Darkness over the LandLetter to the Reverend Jane BradyGroping toward the One ThingBreakfast in BedWhat I Want to Tell You but Can’tThe VisitA Kind of RefugeThe GhostPressure BeltThe Secret PlaceThe OutcomesSocializingWoodPoem for _____Red MegaphoneNarcissismKitchenI See Your Face before MeOde to John CageAutobiographyParisChurchTalking about BeautyWhat I Wanted to DoGiftThe BodyReverenceParents and ChildrenThe Epic of GilgameshAdventCompassion IVGod’s Green EarthAcknowledgments