The Other Love: Poems

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Henri Cole pins the complexities of aging and the mystery of the passage of time to the page. The Other Love is most of all a reflection on aging and the passing of time. It is here that the struggle between form and chaos is most poignantly palpable in Henri Cole's ravishing new book. The Other Love is also a way of seeing the world, an attitude more than an emotion, a love of things and people as they are, and of being open to the beauty and mysteries of the world, despite a constant awareness of violence, particularly an American violence. As the Nobel laureate Louise Glck wrote, "Here indeed is a triumphant achievement from a consummate artist."

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"These are hopeful and gilded poems, managing to suggest the rich life of the mind but never abandoning the body. . . . [The Other Love] reveals a new edge to Cole's voice--composed, taut with nerves, but tempered with wisdom . . . These are exemplary lyrics of witness." --Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"Cole has not compromised any of the principles established in his work from early on. Continuing to write with brio... [these] reassuring lyrics suggest that no matter what terror comes along, our noble charge is to fight to the end, joyously." --Michael Londra, Arts Fuse

"Cole's latest collection meditates on aging and the passage of time through explorations of portraiture, everyday domesticity, and interestingly, plant and animal life... The poems are also political--snapshots of the current era in the U.S.--whether captured at a cautious distance... or loaded with more sinister implications." -- Diego Bez, Booklist

Author Bio

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and an American father. He has published numerous collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published Orphic Paris, a memoir. He lives in Boston and teaches at Claremont McKenna College.