Hymns & Qualms by Peter Cole
Peter Cole's] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off--the affective range is wide and the forms restless. --Ben Lerner, BOMB
Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his prosodic mastery and keen moral intelligence (American Poets), and for the rigor, vigor, joy, and wit of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present. He is, Harold Bloom writes, a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness. Cole is a maker--of poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of the Jerusalem landscape's stark power to electric renderings of mystical medieval Hebrew hymns; from his kabbalistically inspired recent poems to sensuous versions of masterworks of Muslim Spain; and from his provocative presentation of contemporary poetry from Palestine and Israel to his own dazzling reckonings with politics, beauty, and the double-edged dynamic of influence, Cole offers a ramifying vision of connectedness. In the process, he defies traditional distinctions between new and old, familiar and foreign, translation and original--as though, in his own words, living itself were an endless translation.Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions) is one of Peter Cole's past poetry collections. The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 are two of his translations. Cole was designated a MacArthur Fellow in 2007, dividing his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374173883 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374173885 |
| Title | Hymns & Qualms |
| Author | Peter Cole |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus And Giroux |
| Year published | 2017-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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