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Blizzard

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Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in Blizzard, his tenth collection."An artist of the greatest gifts." —Louise GlückDaring, tender, truthful, the poems in Blizzard, Henri Cole's tenth book, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane, history and its disasters, or sexual love, he can sound both ... Read more

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Henri Cole, one of our greatest poets, explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth in Blizzard, his tenth collection."An artist of the greatest gifts." —Louise GlückDaring, tender, truthful, the poems in Blizzard, Henri Cole's tenth book, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. Whether he is wrestling with the mundane, history and its disasters, or sexual love, he can sound both
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Middle Earth

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by Henri Cole ...

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Cole's fifth poetry collection "examines the dichotomies between life and death, animal and human, and the lover and the beloved" ( Library Journal )." Middle Earth is Henri Cole's epiphany, his Whitmanesque sunrise. . . . Henri Cole has become a master poet, with few peers. . . . A central poet of his generation." ―Harold BloomHe... ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Cole's fifth poetry collection "examines the dichotomies between life and death, animal and human, and the lover and the beloved" ( Library Journal )." Middle Earth is Henri Cole's epiphany, his Whitmanesque sunrise. . . . Henri Cole has become a master poet, with few peers. . . . A central poet of his generation." ―Harold BloomHe...
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Winter Stranger

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by Jackson Holbert, Henri Cole ...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet through his skull in a high school parking lot. An uncle crushes oxycodone into "a thousand red granules." Hawks wheel above a dark, indifferent river. ... Read more

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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet through his skull in a high school parking lot. An uncle crushes oxycodone into "a thousand red granules." Hawks wheel above a dark, indifferent river.
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Worldly Things

by Michael Kleber-Diggs, Henri Cole ...

Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry"Sometimes," Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines."In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love—teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry"Sometimes," Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines."In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love—teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet
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The Clearing

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by Allison Adair, Henri Cole ...

A poetry debut that's "a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively" (Henri Cole).Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair's debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live in places that have ... Read more

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A poetry debut that's "a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively" (Henri Cole).Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair's debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live in places that have
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Gravity and Center

Selected Sonnets, 1994–2022

by Henri Cole ...

New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with "a quality of daring that is rare in our poetry" (Louise Glück).I take joy in considering my generation. I rewriteto be read, though I feel shame acknowledging it.Scattered among imposing trees, the ancientand the modern intersect, spreading germs of painand happiness. I curl up in my fleece and drink.Gravity and... ... Read more

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New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with "a quality of daring that is rare in our poetry" (Louise Glück).I take joy in considering my generation. I rewriteto be read, though I feel shame acknowledging it.Scattered among imposing trees, the ancientand the modern intersect, spreading germs of painand happiness. I curl up in my fleece and drink.Gravity and...
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The Milk Hours

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by John James, Henri Cole ...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A "luminous [and] memorable" debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss ( Publishers Weekly)."We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed ... Read more

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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A "luminous [and] memorable" debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss ( Publishers Weekly)."We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed
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Human Resources

by Ryann Stevenson, Henri Cole ...

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A "darkly comic and unsettling" portrait of a woman working in AI, and technology's impact on connection and power (NPR, "Books We Love").Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don't exist. She workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head named "Nia," whom her boss calls "his type"; she loses ... Read more

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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A "darkly comic and unsettling" portrait of a woman working in AI, and technology's impact on connection and power (NPR, "Books We Love").Human Resources follows a woman working in the male-dominated world of AI, designing women that don't exist. She workshops the facial characteristics of a floating head named "Nia," whom her boss calls "his type"; she loses
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The Visible Man

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by Henri Cole ...

"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 presenting a constant tension between classical repose and the friction of life--that make up this exuberant book. This work, wrote Harold Bloom, "persuades me that Cole will be a central poet of his ... Read more

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"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 presenting a constant tension between classical repose and the friction of life--that make up this exuberant book. This work, wrote Harold Bloom, "persuades me that Cole will be a central poet of his
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Nothing to Declare

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by Henri Cole ...

A bold new collection of poems of feral beauty and intense vulnerabilityThe poems in Henri Cole's ninth book, Nothing to Declare, explore life and need and delight. Each poem starts up from its own unique occasion and is then conducted through surprising (sometimes unnerving) and self-steadying domains. The result is a daring, delicate, unguarded, and tender collection. After his last three books— ... Read more

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A bold new collection of poems of feral beauty and intense vulnerabilityThe poems in Henri Cole's ninth book, Nothing to Declare, explore life and need and delight. Each poem starts up from its own unique occasion and is then conducted through surprising (sometimes unnerving) and self-steadying domains. The result is a daring, delicate, unguarded, and tender collection. After his last three books—
... Read more
Pierce the Skin

Selected Poems

by Henri Cole ...

A GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETSHenri Cole has been described as a "fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet" by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generation. Cole's most recent poems have a daring sensitivity and imagistic beauty unlike anything on the American scene today. Whether they are exploring pleasure or pain, humor or sorrow, triumph or fear ... Read more

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A GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETSHenri Cole has been described as a "fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet" by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generation. Cole's most recent poems have a daring sensitivity and imagistic beauty unlike anything on the American scene today. Whether they are exploring pleasure or pain, humor or sorrow, triumph or fear
... Read more
Blackbird and Wolf

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by Henri Cole ...

I don't want words to sever me from reality.I don't want to need them. I want nothingto reveal feeling but feeling—as in freedom,or the knowledge of peace in a realm beyond,or the sound of water poured in a bowl.—from "Gravity and Center"In his sixth collection of poetry, Henri Cole deepens his excavations of autobiography and memory. "I don't want words to sever me from reality," he asserts, and ... Read more

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I don't want words to sever me from reality.I don't want to need them. I want nothingto reveal feeling but feeling—as in freedom,or the knowledge of peace in a realm beyond,or the sound of water poured in a bowl.—from "Gravity and Center"In his sixth collection of poetry, Henri Cole deepens his excavations of autobiography and memory. "I don't want words to sever me from reality," he asserts, and
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