Blizzard
Poems
Published on 1. September 2020
Book
Hardback
80 pages
978-0-374-11438-1 (ISBN)
Description
Daring, tender, truthful, the poems in Blizzard, Henri Cole's tenth book, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane, history and its disasters, or sexual love, he can sound both classical and contemporary, with the modern austerity of Constantine Cavafy and Elizabeth Bishop. Often exploring the darker places of the heart, his sonnets do not lie down obediently but spark with an honest self-awareness.
Cole's lucid, empathetic poems-with lyrical beauty and ethical depth-seem to transmute the anxious perplexities of our time.
Cole's lucid, empathetic poems-with lyrical beauty and ethical depth-seem to transmute the anxious perplexities of our time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-11438-1 (9780374114381)
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Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published nine previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Orphic Paris, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.