Henri Cole

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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Nothing to Declare
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A bold new collection of poems of feral beauty and intense vulnerability
Henri Cole's bold new collection, Nothing to Declare, contains poems of feral beauty and intense...
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Pierce the Skin
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS
Henri Cole has been described as a "fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet" by Harold Bloom, who identifies...
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Blackbird and Wolf
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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The Visible Man
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"To write what is human, not escapist," is Henri Cole's endeavor. In The Visible Man he pursues his aim by folding autobiography and memory into the thirty severe and fiercely truthful lyrics--poems...
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Middle Earth
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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