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Blackbird and Wolf: Poems
by
Henri Cole
I don't want words to sever me from reality.
I don't want to need them. I want nothing
to reveal feeling but feeling--as in freedom,
or the knowledge of peace in a realm beyond,
or the sound of water poured in a bowl.
--from "Gravity and Center"
In his sixth collection of verse, Henri Cole deepens his excavations and examinations of autobiography and memory. These...more
Paperback, 80 pages
Published
March 18th 2008
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(first published 2007)
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"I can bear to think of Heaven and Hell,
where there is no tennis or jam;
but I can't bear to think of the trough in my mattress
filled up by another."
- The Erasers (excerpt)
"Once, in a light-bathed kitchen,
naked and blissfully myself, ..."
- Bowl of Lilacs (excerpt)
"Throughout our affair of eleven years,
disappearing into the pleasure-unto-death
acts I recall now as love and, afterward,
orbiting th...more
where there is no tennis or jam;
but I can't bear to think of the trough in my mattress
filled up by another."
- The Erasers (excerpt)
"Once, in a light-bathed kitchen,
naked and blissfully myself, ..."
- Bowl of Lilacs (excerpt)
"Throughout our affair of eleven years,
disappearing into the pleasure-unto-death
acts I recall now as love and, afterward,
orbiting th...more
A mournful and celebratory collection of poems, with some echoes of Dickinson.
A good deal more lyrical than I'm accustomed to these days. Still, lovely.
This is a collection of jewel-like poems spun close to nature, visceral in their animal longing. Blackbird and Wolf winds biological and emotional inwardness into art, with stark honesty--its landscapes being as vivid as the pain of illusory freedom, of loss. "Dune" is stunning.
I preferred Middle Earth to this. Nonetheless, Henri Cole's style remains pristine and clear––perhaps even more so than in Middle Earth. Certainly he deserves the prize he just won!
Rich in skill, while at the same time raw and primal, the poems are beautiful, harrowing, enlivening.
straight poetry here, mildly evolutionary, lots of love and oddness, a book that wins hero status
I'm not really much of a poetry person, but some of the poems were truly wonderful.
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