- Format
- E-bog, ePub
- Engelsk
- 80 sider
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Beskrivelse
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 mother's death, a lover's addiction, war-with a startling clarity. Cole's new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the body-both its pleasures and its discontents-and they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. 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. With his simultaneous impulses to privacy and to connection, Cole neutralizes pain with understatement, masterful cadences, precise descriptions of the external world, and a formal dexterity rarely found in contemporary American poetry.Touch is a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal80
- Udgivelsesdato12-08-2014
- ISBN139781466877788
- Forlag Farrar Straus and Giroux
- FormatePub
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