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Things on Which I've Stumbled
Peter Cole
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Description for Things on Which I've Stumbled
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Things on Which I've Stumbled rides a variable music that takes it from an archeology of mysterious poetic fragments unearthed in an ancient Egyptian synagogue to poignant political commentary on the blighted hills surrounding modern Jerusalem. Cole's vision of connectedness, his wit, and his grounded wisdom, along with his keen sense of literature's place in a meaningful life, render these poems at once fresh and abiding. Widely acclaimed for his translations from Hebrew and Arabic, Cole is also the ... Read more
In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Things on Which I've Stumbled rides a variable music that takes it from an archeology of mysterious poetic fragments unearthed in an ancient Egyptian synagogue to poignant political commentary on the blighted hills surrounding modern Jerusalem. Cole's vision of connectedness, his wit, and his grounded wisdom, along with his keen sense of literature's place in a meaningful life, render these poems at once fresh and abiding. Widely acclaimed for his translations from Hebrew and Arabic, Cole is also the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811218030
SKU
V9780811218030
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About Peter Cole
Peter Cole’s previous books of poems include Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions). Among his volumes of translation are The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Cole, who divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, was named a MacArthur Fellow in ... Read more
Reviews for Things on Which I've Stumbled
"Prosodic mastery fuses with a keen moral intelligence in this collection…. In his unabashed search for wisdom and beauty—notions many poets today find fatuous or at least too subjective to handle—Cole fearlessly manipulates sonic and semantic patterns…. Working from ancient sources, he has enacted Pound’s dictum to ‘Make it new.’"
American Poet "Peter Cole is not a household name, ... Read more
American Poet "Peter Cole is not a household name, ... Read more