Blackbird and Wolf: Poems by Henri Cole

Blackbird and Wolf: Poems

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Blackbird and Wolf: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Blackbird and Wolf: Poems

by Henri Cole

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I don't want words to sever me from reality.
I don't want to need them. I want nothing
to reveal feeling but feeling--as in freedom,
or the knowledge of peace in a realm beyond,
or the sound of water poured in a bowl.

--from "Gravity and Center"

In his sixth collection of verse, Henri Cole deepens his excavations and examinations of autobiography and memory. These poems--often hovering within the realm of the sonnet--combine a delight in the senses with the rueful, the elegiac, the harrowing. Central here is the human need for love, the highest function of our species. Whether writing about solitude or unsanctioned desire, animals or flowers, the dissolution of his mother's body or war, Cole maintains a style that is neither confessional nor abstract, and he is always opposing disappointment and difficult truths with innocence and wonder.
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374531126
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Henri Cole
Published Date:
2008-03-18
Language:
English
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About Henri Cole

Henri Cole holds degrees from the College of William and Mary, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Columbia. Born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and an American father, he was raised in Virginia. Middle Earth won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2004 and was a Pulitzer finalist that year; Blackbird and Wolf won the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2008. He received the Jackson Poetry Prize in 2012 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017. He was poetry editor of The New Republic from 2010 to 2014, and published a memoir, Orphic Paris, in 2018.

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