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"Cole Swensen's Stele goes forth with an artful, graceful balancing as in a minuet, stopping, bowing, and then moving towards new thought. This reading 'presumes a crossing' of empty space in each line. This gap is a telling while it's occurring. The interval grows until it changes how one reads the work. Simple rhythmic constraints of diction and of space construct a fluid but uneven chiasm where one begins to read down and across at the same time, two eerily different musical scores. Sophisticated, in a refined, unhurried measure, the more Stele gains restraint, the more ardent it becomes." - Norma Cole on Cole Swensen's Stele (Post-Apollo Press, 2012).