Henri Cole, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-20881-3
Making good on his biography's pointed reference to his Japanese birthplace, Cole spent 2001–2 living in Kyoto on a fellowship from the US-Japan Friendship Commission, an experience that tinges this careful book of formal verse with neo-Ori
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Henri Cole, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (59p) ISBN 978-0-374-11379-7
In his sixth book, Cole wants to write "something highly controlled/ that is the opposite," and he succeeds. Once a poet of great formal control and dense, sometimes inscrutable lines, Cole (Middle Earth
) now writes simply and sparely,...
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Henri Cole, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (140p) ISBN 978-0-374-23283-2
Cole has been called a “major poet” by no less an authority than Harold Bloom, and his work has been consistently lauded throughout his closely watched career. This slim (perhaps too slim) selection from Cole’s six previous books...
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Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-27835-9
Cole’s eighth book of poems may be his most sensitive (in the manner of a compass needle), pointing as precisely as possible to the various sources of a lifetime’s fragility and emotional power. Written mostly in the pseudo-sonnets he’s developed in
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Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23 (80p) ISBN 978-0-37422-292-5
The highly acclaimed Cole (Touch) begins his ninth collection with the perilous honesty that audiences have come to expect—and value—in his work: "I like invisibleness/ except in the moon’s strong,/ broad rays. Some nights/ I ask her paleness, ‘Will
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Henri Cole. New York Review Books, $15.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-68137-218-1
This impressionistic paean to Paris from poet Cole (Nothing to Declare) bypasses conventional memoir or travelogue to give readers a captivating collection of his memories. Born to an American father and a French mother, Cole discusses family...
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Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (80p) ISBN 978-0-374-11438-1
The radiant 10th collection from Cole (Touch) draws from the natural world, placing human life alongside the sublime. The poems appreciate small pleasures, as in “Lingonberry Jam,” in which the condiment evokes a feeling that “pierces right/ through
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Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-60668-8
Suffering is neutralized by love for nature and a Zen mindset (“the sound of water poured into a bowl”) in the unflinching 12th collection by Cole (Blizzard). These new and previously collected sonnets are not love poems, though some are sex poems: “
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Henri Cole. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-37461-903-9
Cole’s observant follow-up to Gravity and Center finds him living “a cautious, quiet life.” These are hopeful and gilded poems, managing to suggest the rich life of the mind but never abandoning the body. Many are the length of sonnets and possess...
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