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The Look of Things

The Look of Things


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The poems in Henri Cole's third book, The Look of Things, voice the tension between the social and the spiritual life, between the desire for company and for solitude, between youth and the ravages of disease, between the American and the exotic. Cole treats these conflicting concerns in tones sometimes satiric, sometimes elegiac, sometimes ruefully self-deprecating, sometimes harrowingly tragic. The vein of playfulness cannot obscure the social and domestic losses attending life, but joy is not forgotten, even when it is black-bordered by epitaph. Though the ghost of formal verse haunts these poems, they allude to it without subservience. And Cole lifts the topics of everyday life into the symbolic order of reflection and structure without ever losing his awareness of their origins in the heart.

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"Henri Cole explores for the third time the ranges of his talent. In this book the burning-glass of feelings, of anguish and lament, is held mercifully under the gentling moonlight of form. The sufferings of AIDS victims are distanced by 'stories' brushed on the page like French Impressionist paintings. Pity and terror join hands once more with beauty and grace." Mona Van Duyn "Henri Cole's book looks into the look of things, looking at how he feels and sees, how he reciprocally reflects on himself in reviewing the beautiful and terrible changes of the exterior world as they have everything and nothing to do with his inmost religious and sensual yearnings. He has an elegant eye, a fine ear, a tongue bright as bittersweet." Philip Booth "From the Hardcover edition."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780679765936
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Height: 241 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 067976593X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Oct 1996
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 159 gr


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