Henri Cole
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published eight previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His most recent collection is Touch. He lives in Boston, where he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Henri Cole
Related Links
Author on the Web
Henri Cole
Related Links
Books by the Author
Nothing to Declare
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A bold collection of poems of feral beauty and intense vulnerability
Henri Cole's bold collection, Nothing to Declare, contains poems of feral beauty and intense vulnerability....
Available in:
Touch
Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics—a...
Available in:
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...
Available in:
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...
Available in:
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...
Available in:
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...
Available in: