Draw Me After (Paperback)

Peter Cole

ISBN 10: 0374607877 / ISBN 13: 9780374607876

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, New York, 2024

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Paperback. "Cole's splendid ear orchestrates awakenings." -Forrest Gander, author of Twice AlivePeter Cole's luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one translates drawings by Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions of Winters's art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion, offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet-in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole's poetry disturbs and enchants with "a quiet, streaming power . . . that leads the reader back to it over and over again" (Ray Gonzalez, The Bloomsbury Review). "Peter Cole "sings like nobody else in English today" (Richard Sieburth), and Draw Me After is a potent and profound new refrain"-- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Draw Me After (Paperback)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374607877
• ISBN 13: 9780374607876
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

“Cole’s splendid ear orchestrates awakenings.” ―Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive

Peter Cole’s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.

At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one translates drawings by Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions of Winters’s art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion, offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet―in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole’s poetry disturbs and enchants with “a quiet, streaming power . . . that leads the reader back to it over and over again” (Ray González, The Bloomsbury Review).

About the Author

Peter Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. He has written several books of poems, including Hymns & Qualms and Rift, and he has also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works―both medieval and modern. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.