Hymns & Qualms: New And Selected Poems And Translations

ô[Peter ColeÆs] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed offùthe affective range is wide and the forms restless.ö ùBen Lerner, BOMB Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter ColeÆs acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his ôprosodic masteryö and ôkeen moral intelligenceö (American Poets), and for the ôrigor, vigor, joy, and witö 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, ôa 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 of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.ö Cole is a makerùof poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of the Jerusalem landscapeÆs 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 of influence, Cole offers a ramifying vision of connectedness. In the process, he defies traditional distinctions between new and old, familiar and foreign, translation and originalùôas though,ö in his own words, ôliving itself were an endless translation.ö

• | Author: Peter Cole
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374537704
• | ISBN-13: 9780374537708