The Visible Man: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (666 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375403965 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 67 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praised by Harold Bloom and many other critics and poets for his earlier collections, Henri Cole has grown steadily in poetic stature and importance. Now 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.On being awarded the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Henri Cole received the following citation:"In a poetry nervously alive to the maladies of the con
Im just like you,/ he moaned." However, these half-committed proclamations fall short each time the speaker shifts to a religious allusion. Still influenced by the title, the reader expects the speaker to emerge vividly with some proclamation. . Perhaps this shift is the construct of the speaker's internal conflict; it is unclear. This fourth collection tarnishes that reputation. From Library Journal Cole (The Look of Things, LJ 2/1/95) has contributed much to contemporary poetry, not just as a poet but as a Harvard lecturer and as the former executive director of the Academy of American Poets. Not recommended.ATim Gavin, Episcopal Acad., Merion, PACopyright 1998 Reed Busine
A brilliant, elegant new work by a major contemporary voice. From a review in Publisher's Weekly (9/28/98): A dazzling combination of ceremonious poise and brash, confessional utterances, the lyrics of Cole's fourth book form an intensely personal quest to reconcile tradition with angst-ridden bodily desire. Cole sets the book's first section in a glitzy contemporary Italy where "men and boys stroll among the ruins,/ anonymously skirting the floodlights." In a sly break away from the ghosts of Merrill and Bishop (. ""Writing What Is Human"" according to Judy Lightfoot. [This book brief appeared March 11, 1999, in Seattle's "The Stranger" and can be found online at []Cole does to the sonnet what postmodern consciousness does to the self--he wrenches it, shatters it, sucks it dry, turns it inside out, and sometimes, for a moment, holds it in a quiet embrace. The central problem of his book is knowledge, which made Apollo a god but divides us from ourselves. Cole seeks to unite body and mind in a self through Arte Povera . Best Book of Poetry published in 1998 A Customer Henri Cole has long been seen as a fussy apprentice to James Merrill and Elizabeth Bishop, but this has always been an issue easily overlooked because of the vigor with which Cole has often written about his subjects. With this, his fourth book, Cole has not rejected the fastidiousness of Bishop or the sly elegance of Merrill, he has corrupted these things and, by so doing, created a harrowing, desperate, powerful poetry. In many of these poems, the comp