Touch
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 aesth...
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 aesth...
