Draw Me After: Poems - Softcover

Cole, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374607877 ISBN 13: 9780374607876

Publisher: FSG Adult, 2024

Synopsis

“Cole’s splendid ear orchestrates awakenings.” ―Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive

Peter Cole’s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.

At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one translates drawings by Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions of Winters’s art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion, offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet―in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole’s poetry disturbs and enchants with “a quiet, streaming power . . . that leads the reader back to it over and over again” (Ray González, The Bloomsbury Review).

About this title

About the Author

Peter Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. He has written several books of poems, including Hymns & Qualms and Rift, and he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works--both medieval and modern. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

Edition details

• Publisher: FSG Adult
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374607877
• ISBN 13: 9780374607876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128