Gravity And Center Selected Sonnets 19942022 Henri Cole by Henri Cole 9780374606695, 0374606692 instant download after payment.

New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with “a quality of daring that is rare in our poetry” (Louise Glück).
I take joy in considering my generation. I rewriteto be read, though I feel shame acknowledging it.Scattered among imposing trees, the ancientand the modern intersect, spreading germs of painand happiness. I curl up in my fleece and drink.Gravity and Center
collects almost thirty years of deeply original work by one of
America’s greatest living poets. As his writing has grown and changed,
Henri Cole has conceived and articulated an approach of his own to one
of poetry’s most enduring and challenging forms: the sonnet. Cole writes
in his afterword, “I believe a poem is a sonnet if it behaves like one,
and this doesn’t mean rhyming iambic pentameter lines. More important
is the psychological dimension, the little fractures and leaps and
resolutions the poem enacts . . . For some reason the lean, muscular
body of the sonnet frees me to be simultaneously dignified and bold, to
appear somewhat socialized though what I have to say may be eccentric or
unethical, and, most important of all, to have aesthetic power while
writing about the tragic situation of the individual in the world.”
Cole
is both confessional and abstract, intimate and cosmopolitan,
astringent and slain by beauty. Whether he is writing about the
contingencies of selfhood, the lives of animals and plants, or the
violent events of the world, there is always the incandescence of his
language and the power and surprise of unique formal mastery.