Touch: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374533474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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He can't, and neither can we.” The New Yorker“Touch is Cole's definitive and deeply conflicted account of the death of his mother Cole is unmatched in his willingness to confront and inhabit bereavement. They're tender and compassionate but clear-eyed, and there's something, if we may presume to say, masculine in their stance.” Bay Area Reporter“Like the messianic Walt Whitman Henri Cole has spent his career tallying ecstatic and multifarious encounters with physical reality. So in order to really honor the people we love or g
David Betzer said Five Stars. A brilliant collection by one of the greatest poets of our times.. "Cole's Very Presently Here" according to Tory Adkisson. The only thing I might agree with you on is that Middle Earth is probably Cole's single greatest volume of poetry; other than that, I find the rest of your review to be oddly caustic and mean-spirited, indulging in inexplicable praise before turning the hand to attack the poet's most recent offering. Who are you to criticize a poet's expression and obsessions? If you don't like it, don't read it and defame it. Simple is that. Why waste your time on material that you clearly expected to dislike fr. Liam Holmes said Just kinda ehdisappointing.. 1.5 StarsI bought this after enjoying "Blackbird and Wolf" thoroughly. I went as far to buy the book for a friend. I read the reviews for "touch" on amazon and discredited the lone 1 star review. Only after I ordered did I realize that 6 of the 7 reviews came in a two day period after the one star review. Some of these reviews are ridiculously overblown and some are just reprinting of press given to the book elsewhere. I am almost positive all these reviews were either written or triggered by the
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and was raised in Virginia. The recipient of many awards, he is the author, most recently, of Pierce the Skin (FSG, 2010); Blackbird and Wolf (FSG, 2007); Middle Earth (FSG, 2003), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and The Visible Man (FSG, 1998).
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. Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. Cole's new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the bodyboth its pleasures and its discontentsand they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topicsa mother's death, a lover's addiction, warwith a