Invasive Procedures - Socolow, Nan
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"A poem is like a chunk of raw marble." Nan Socolow chips and chips away at that chunk, and it takes form and becomes smaller, and smaller still, and when nothing further can be chipped away-when only the finest essence of a marble scrap is left-that is her poem: less is more. Alternatively, an entire poem will write itself around an object, like a sliver of dried up soap or a yellow-crowned night heron "stalking on the sand" outside her window. As a result, Socolow's poems are short and pert, sweet and sour as if laced with passion fruit. She pounces upon certain moments, capturing them in…mehr

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"A poem is like a chunk of raw marble." Nan Socolow chips and chips away at that chunk, and it takes form and becomes smaller, and smaller still, and when nothing further can be chipped away-when only the finest essence of a marble scrap is left-that is her poem: less is more. Alternatively, an entire poem will write itself around an object, like a sliver of dried up soap or a yellow-crowned night heron "stalking on the sand" outside her window. As a result, Socolow's poems are short and pert, sweet and sour as if laced with passion fruit. She pounces upon certain moments, capturing them in her net when no one else is looking, as Nabokov captured his butterflies. The language is jubilant, exploding into alliteration, ecstasy, and irony as she plucks images from the air that she has so amply breathed throughout her eventful, celebratory life. Her words and music are original and powerful, image and sound playing between past and present, old age and youth, life and death, tragedy and comedy. She writes of nature, marriage, parenting, aging, death, subjects that are part of all our lives, all familiar but addressed with a tinge of irony and a dose of astute perception. And, of course, she writes of love, of the joys and sorrows of lust, romance, courtship, marriage, heartbreak, disappointment, and separation. Hers is the voice of someone who has lived and observed life closely and fully and has distilled a wry, sophisticated, and acute understanding of the world and of life itself.
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Nan Socolow, born in New York City, studied poetry at Connecticut College with William Meredith, U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. At Princeton University, where she was the first Administrator of Rockefeller College, she studied advanced poetry with Theodore ("Ted") Weiss, founder and publisher of Quarterly Review of Literature. In France, at the Sorbonne and Musée d'art Moderne, she studied contemporary French Literature and Art. In addition to serving as Director of Development at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, Socolow worked in First Lady Rosalynn Carter's office at the White House planning for the Signing Ceremony and events for the First Arab-Israeli Peace Treaty, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin in 1979. In the 1980s Socolow worked for the U.S. State Department and United States Information Agency. As a Language Services Officer, she accompanied foreign leaders on Fulbright Grants as they travelled throughout the U.S. in their fields of expertise and interest. In 1988, she moved to Cayman Brac, where she worked as a condominium manager, hotel administrator, and real estate agent while also pursuing writing, gardening, cooking, and life as an expat in a paradaisal place-in Hurricane Alley. Her beachfront home was destroyed by hurricanes Ivan (2004) and Paloma (2008) and she rebuilt the house twice. After 26 years she returned to the United States, settling into her current home in West Palm Beach, Florida, where she enjoys living "in interesting times."