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Touch

Touch

Cole, Henri

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0374533474
ISBN13: 9780374533472
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 4 2012
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.31
Language: English

Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics--a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war--with a startling clarity. Cole's new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the body--both its pleasures and its discontents--and they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. Alternating between innocence and violent self-condemnation, between the erotic and the elegiac, and between thought and emotion, these poems represent a kind of mid-life selving that chooses life. With his simultaneous impulses to privacy and to connection, Cole neutralizes pain with understatement, masterful cadences, precise descriptions of the external world, and a formal dexterity rarely found in contemporary American poetry.

Touch is a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.

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