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100 1 $aCole, Peter,$d1957-$eauthor.
245 10$aHymns & qualms :$bnew and selected poems and translations /$cPeter Cole.
246 3 $aHymns and qualms.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2017.
300 $axiii, 318 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aInspired, border-crossing work by a major American poet and translator Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his prosodic mastery and keen moral intelligence (American Poets), and for the rigor, vigor, joy, and wit of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present. He is, Harold Bloom writes, a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life ofa profoundly spiritual consciousness. Cole is a maker--of poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of the Jerusalem landscape's stark power to electric renderings of mystical medieval Hebrew hymns; from his kabbalistically inspired recent poems to sensuous versions of masterworks of Muslim Spain; and from his provocative presentation of contemporary poetry from Palestine and Israel to his own dazzling reckonings with politics, beauty, and the double-edged dynamic ofinfluence, Cole offers a ramifying vision of connectedness. In the process, he defies traditional distinctions between new and old, familiar and foreign, translation and original--as though, in his own words, living itself were an endlesstranslation.--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $aA selection of Cole's award-winning poetry and translations together with new poems--$cProvided by publisher.