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Henri Cole


Born
Fukuoka, Japan
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Genre
Poetry


Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan and raised in Virginia. He has published many collections of poetry and received numerous awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent books are Orphic Paris, a memoir (New York Review Books), and Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). From 2010 to 2014, he was poetry editor of The New Republic. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 2,341 ratings · 359 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors
Orphic Paris
3.94 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions
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Middle Earth: Poems
4.09 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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Blackbird and Wolf: Poems
3.98 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Blizzard: Poems
3.75 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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Touch: Poems
3.91 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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Pierce the Skin: Selected P...
4.04 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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Nothing to Declare: Poems
3.79 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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The Visible Man: Poems
4.07 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
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Gravity and Center: Selecte...
4.10 avg rating — 79 ratings — 3 editions
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The Other Love: Poems
3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions
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“There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human.”
― Henri Cole, Touch: Poems
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“I'm standing in the lake, forming a whirlpool with my arms, letting the force of atonement pull me into its center until I cannot any longer hang onto my observations or any sense of myself, like dust and hydrogen clouds getting all excited white creating new stars to light the backyard. How poignantly emptiness cries out to be filled.”
― Henri Cole, Touch: Poems
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“Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.”
― Henri Cole, Touch: Poems
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