"[Peter Cole's] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its
combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how
its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought
and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac,
pissed off--the affective range is wide and the forms restless."
--Ben Lerner, BOMB Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur
Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them
into a helical whole. Praised for his "prosodic mastery" and "keen
moral intelligence" (American Poets), and for the "rigor, vigor,
joy, and wit" of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a
vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom
while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the
present. He is, Harold Bloom writes, "a matchless translator and
one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American
generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of
the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness." Cole
is a maker--of poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of
the Jerusalem landscape's stark power to electric renderings of
mystical medieval Hebrew hymns; from his kabbalistically inspired
recent poems to sensuous versions of masterworks of Muslim Spain;
and from his provocative presentation of contemporary poetry from
Palestine and Israel to his own dazzling reckonings with politics,
beauty, and the double-edged dynamic of influence, Cole offers a
ramifying vision of connectedness. In the process, he defies
traditional distinctions between new and old, familiar and foreign,
translation and original--"as though," in his own words, "living
itself were an endless translation."
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