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Blackbird and Wolf
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Author
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Henri Cole.
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Publisher
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FSG
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.75
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0.5
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ISBN
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9780374113797
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Pages/Publication Date
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59/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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11912
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List Price:
$23.00
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$3.98
You Save:
$19.02
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Description
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"In his sixth book, [Henri] Cole wants to write 'something highly controlled / that is the opposite,' and he succeeds. Once a poet of great formal control and dense, sometimes inscrutable lines, Cole now writes simply and sparely, mixing autobiography, eros and the natural world in a voice that buzzes with emotion. Single-lined stanzas accentuate the poems' spareness, placing great pressure on each line. Cole can devastate ('I'm sorry I cannot say I love you when you say / you love me,'), declaim in deadpan ('I have a fever which I'm treating with gin') or plainly declare ('I'm tired of just being a man'). Many poems look grief in the face, addressing a dying mother, an ex-lover, flowers and animals, an absent god, the disappointing self, even the 43rd president, with whom Cole admits to a degree of fellowship—a rare sentiment these days, especially in poems—a common fear of 'some unbroken animal/ circling in the dark wood.'... This intimate, honest voice surprises. Poetry 'is stronger / than I am and makes me do what it wants,' Cole writes of the bullying that has produced his best book to date."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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