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Blackbird and Wolf by Henri Cole

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.

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Cole, Henri: - Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published over half a dozen previous collections of poetry, including Touch, Nothing to Declare, and Blackbird and Wolf; and a memoir, Orphic Paris. Among his many awards are the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He lives in Boston, where he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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ISBN 13 9780374113797
ISBN 10 0374113793
Titre Blackbird and Wolf
Auteur Henri Cole
État Non disponible
Éditeur Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Année de publication 2007-03-20
Nombre de pages 59
Prix Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Poetry) 2007, Winner of Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2008, Winner of Ambassador Book Awards (Poetry) 2008, Winner of Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) (Poetry) 2008, Short-listed for Quill Awards (Poetry) 2007
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