Ken Norris

The Music is an integrated collection of poems written over a six-year period. The music Norris charts is “the music of everyday life,” of Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, of sex and jazz, of poetry and baseball. An exciting collection by a writer who has been called “one of the best poets of h...

Alphabet of Desire, Ken Norris's sixteenth book of poetry, brings together two remarkable poetic sequences. ‘The Ascent of Spring’ is a haunting meditation on creativity and renewal. The title sequence, consisting of thirty-nine prose poems, covers everything from Aspects of the Natural to Zen Mo...