The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge: Poems

by Henri Cole

Poems deal with the place of people in the animal kingdom, mortality, social graces, love, loss, travel, and childhood

Genres: Poetry

65 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Heather scarlett victoria]

Purchased this at Sam Weller's Bookstore, 25% off, because they are moving. Hopefully somewhere close, hopefully somewhere fulfilling.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 C6894z 1989