Touch : Poems

English

ISBN: 0374533474

EAN: 9780374533472

Category: Poetry / General

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 09/04/2012

Synopsis: Henri Coles 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 mothers death, a lovers addiction, war -- with a startling clarity. Coles 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.

Awards: Publishing Triangle Awards – null 

Touch : Poems

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.08 inches

Width: 5.46 inches

Length: 8.3 inches

Weight: 3.84 oz

Pages: 80