{"product_id":"touch","title":"Touch","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, \u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouch \u003c\/i\u003eis a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.","brand":"Henri Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43852628787242,"sku":"9780374533472","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/touch-4427929.jpg?v=1764057732","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/touch","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}