Middle Earth: Poems by Henri Cole

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Middle Earth: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Middle Earth: Poems

by Henri Cole

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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).
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374529284
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Henri Cole
Published Date:
2004-04-14
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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