A complex and rewarding collection that observes the fragility of love and nature in an increasingly delicate world.  Henri Cole| The Other Love | Farrar, Straus and Giroux: £12.00Reviewed by Ian Popl...

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

Henri Cole’s book of poetry, Blizzard, embraces extremities of emotive experience, its speakers’ understanding of the brutalities of the world, and of the Self, owed to the poet’s presentation of an e...

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”

The words, like moist fingers, appear before me full of p...

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After the metal detector, there was no pat down. A guard marked my wrist with ultraviolet inkthat shone in blacklight. Since I had clearedthe background check, my books were my identification.The inmates sat in bleachers of the big gymnasiumwhere the sultry air smelled of perspiration and weights.After I read each poem, they snapped their fingersto encourage me to keep going. A few licked ice crea...

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

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“Standing at the window, I watch robins clean themselves / in the cement birdbath.”

“Standing at the window, I watch robins clean themselves / in the cement birdbath.”

“In truth, I’m still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I’d rather say, I make poems.”

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