Henri Cole

Middle Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and "a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom)

Time was plunging forward,
like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
and it was as if that was all God wanted:
not a wife, a house or a position,
but a self, like a needle, pushing in a vein.-from "Olympia"

In his fifth collection of verse, Henri Cole's melodious lines are written in an open style that is both erotic and visionary. Few poets so thrillingly portray the physical world, or man's creaturely self, or the cycling strain of desire and self-reproach. Few poets so movingly evoke the human quest of "a man alone," trying "to say something true that has body, / because it is proof of his existence." Middle Earth is a revelatory collection, the finest work yet from an author of poems that are "marvels-unbuttoned, riveting, dramatic-burned into being" (Tina Barr, Boston Review).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466877764
• Artikelnr.: 41254941

Autorenporträt

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia. He has published eight collections of poetry, including Middle Earth (FSG, 2004) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He has received many awards for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Award. His most recent collection is Touch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011). He teaches at Ohio State University, is poetry editor of The New Republic, and lives in Boston.