Drawings by Norma Cole

Introduction by Mary Ann Caws

Photos by Steven Seidenberg

Published by Further Other Book Works

96 pages, perfect bound

7.5” x 6.5” (closed)

Full color throughout

First printing

2020

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Norma Cole’s DRAWINGS is an art book featuring over 60 notebook sketches and drawings, often incorporating collage elements.

The notebooks are piled up, the sparse texts say much without spelling it out; something about being or not saying sorry. Here is the thing: as a reader-viewer, I appreciate the possibility of making my own sense of the given and hidden, allowing my feeling of the story to take me in, without re-reading to check…

Mary Ann Caws, from the Introduction

From the publisher:

“It should come as no surprise that we’ve been fans of Norma’s visual work for awhile. […] For more on Norma Cole’s visual art and notebook practice, see Claire Tranchino’s discussion of her work with the Norma Cole Collection at the Poetry Collection in Buffalo. And if you haven’t read this lovely exhibition report by Laura Moriarty, you’re missing out. If memory serves, we walked straight from Norma’s show (at Margaret Tedesco’s 2nd Floor Projects in 2015) to a lunch with Norma where we were so ecstatic we proposed to do an art book!”