{"product_id":"pierce-the-skin-selected-poems-1982-2007-paperback","title":"Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenri Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenri 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, they reach for an almost shocking intensity. Cole's fourth book, \u003ci\u003eMiddle Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, awakened his audience to him as a poet now writing the poems of his career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierce the Skin \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together sixty-six poems from the past twenty-five years, including work from Cole's early, closely observed, virtuosic books, long out of print, as well as his important more recent books, \u003ci\u003eThe Visible Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003eMiddle Earth \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), and \u003ci\u003eBlackbird and Wolf \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). The result is a collection reconsecrating Cole's central themes: the desire for connection, the contingencies of selfhood and human love, the dissolution of the body, the sublime renewal found in nature, and the distance of language from experience. I don't want words to sever me from reality, Cole says, striving in \u003ci\u003ePierce the Skin \u003c\/i\u003eto break the barrier even between word and skin. Maureen N. McLane wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003ethat Cole is a poet of self-overcoming, lusting, loathing and beautiful force. This book will have a permanent place with other essential poems of our moment.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHENRI COLE \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Fukuoka, Japan, and was raised in Virginia. The recipient of many awards, he is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eBlackbird and Wolf \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2007) and \u003ci\u003eMiddle Earth \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2003), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762296095008,"sku":"9780374532666","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2eec5ce036f39f6f33e3b1895db0c6ee.webp?v=1780218892","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pierce-the-skin-selected-poems-1982-2007-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}