| Things on Which I've Stumbled Contributor(s): Cole, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811218031 ISBN-13: 9780811218030 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: Remarkable poetry by the widely acclaimed poet and translator of Hebrew and Arabic poetry. In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, "Things on Which I've Stumbled," the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Plumbing the past as it soars in the present, the collection rides a variable music that takes it from an archeology of mysterious poetic fragments unearthed in a medieval Egyptian synagogue to lyrics suffused with a "normal mysticism" and poignant political commentary on the blighted hills surrounding modern Jerusalem. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2008022975 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.12" W x 8.94" (0.37 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. Things on Which I've Stumbled rides a variable music that takes it from an archeology of mysterious poetic fragments unearthed in an ancient Egyptian synagogue to poignant political commentary on the blighted hills surrounding modern Jerusalem. Cole's vision of connectedness, his wit, and his grounded wisdom, along with his keen sense of literature's place in a meaningful life, render these poems at once fresh and abiding. Widely acclaimed for his translations from Hebrew and Arabic, Cole is also the author of two highly praised collections of poems. Writing in The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom called Peter Cole a major poet-translator. In Things on Which I've Stumbled, he turns to translating the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cole, Peter: - Peter Cole's previous books of poems include Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions). Among his volumes of translation are The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Cole, who divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007. |