Comments on: Interview: “Green-Wood” Author, Allison Cobb

By: Allison Cobb

Allison Cobb — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:22:54 +0000

[...] Allison, on October 18th, 2010 I did an interview about Green-Wood several months ago with the good folks at Reading Local Portland. Their web site [...]

By: CAFFEINATED ART # 83 – Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman and Lindsay Hill « Show and Tell Gallery

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:41:37 +0000

[...] Allison Cobb is the author of the poetry collection Born2 (Chax Press) about growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, (birthplace of the atomic bombs) and the just-published Green-Wood, a work of poetic nonfiction (Factory School). She lived for many years in Brooklyn, New York, where she worked for an environmental organization. She now lives in Portland. In Green-Wood, Allison Cobb wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth century Green-Wood Cemetery and discovers that its 500 acres – hills and ponds, trees and graves – mirror the American landscape: a place marked by death but still pulsing with life. Through the lens of Green-Wood, the book explores the history of the American landscape, changing attitudes toward the land, and the impacts of private property, industrial poisons, and war. This is history and poetry, a testament to what survives and an elegy for what is lost–the long dead, the landscape itself, but especially those who died in the twin towers and in the United States’ ongoing wars. Jen Coleman [...]

By: Portland Book Events: February 6-12 - Reading Local: Portland

Portland Book Events: February 6-12 - Reading Local: Portland — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:53:18 +0000

[...] Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press) and the just-published Green-Wood (Factory School), which chronicles her experiences in Brooklyn, New York’s famous nineteenth-century Green-Wood Cemetery. She was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as were the first atomic bombs, and she now lives in Portland, Oregon. Check out RLP’s interview with Allison. [...]