
Draw Me After
Poems
Peter Cole(Author)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc (Publisher)
Published on 22. November 2022
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-374-60536-0 (ISBN)
Description
Peter Cole's luminous new book calls us to poetry's lyric root and power: "Wanting song / in the beginning / beginning to end /now we are falling . . ." In Draw Me After, his sixth collection, and in many ways his freest and most moving to date, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a mythic place of first response and responsibility to sites of psychological, natural, and political catastrophe.
At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one "translates" drawings by the artist Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions of Winters's gnomic, celebratory art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion, offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet-in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole's poetry disturbs and enchants with what one critic has called "a quiet, streaming power that leads the reader back to it over and over again" (The Bloomsbury Review).
At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one "translates" drawings by the artist Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions of Winters's gnomic, celebratory art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion, offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet-in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole's poetry disturbs and enchants with what one critic has called "a quiet, streaming power that leads the reader back to it over and over again" (The Bloomsbury Review).
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
8 Black-and-White Images in Text
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-374-60536-0 (9780374605360)
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Person
Peter Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. The author of five previous books of poems, he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works-both medieval and modern. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a PEN Translation Prize for Poetry, a National Jewish Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.