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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Name
- Hymns & Qualms
- Title
- Hymns & Qualms
- Subtitle
- New and Selected Poems and Translations
- ISBN-10
- 0374537704
- EAN
- 9780374537708
- ISBN
- 9780374537708
- Release Date
- 05/01/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374537704
ISBN-13
9780374537708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239972508
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hymns and Qualms : New and Selected Poems and Translations
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"I love this book-for its idiosyncratic music, its moral and spiritual intelligence, and the balance it maintains between pain and joy, provocation and solace. People are always asking, What's the point of poetry when the world is going to hell? Hymns & Qualms is a potent reply." --Christian Wiman " Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness." --Harold Bloom "Peter Cole sings like nobody else in English today, his ear attuned to the prosodies of classical Arabic and the Hebrew lyrics of al-Andalus. In his poetry we hear shards of that 'pure language' which, according to Benjamin, arises when languages come together--and apart--in translation. Every rift of these Hymns & Qualms is loaded with ore." --Richard Sieburth "Cole is a writer of deeply textured poems . . . His rhythms surprise, his forms feel simultaneously fresh and archaic . . . It's tempting to think of him as one of his beloved Jewish Andalusian [poets] reborn in our time." -- Greer Mansfield, Bookslut "Masterful . . . Deeply allusive, profound, committed verse." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "Peter Cole's work is an entire revelation: a body of lyric and didactic verse so intense, so intelligent, and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us. His work represents the finest labor of poetic translation that I have seen in many years." --Richard Howard
Synopsis
"[Peter Cole's] 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 off--the affective range is wide and the forms restless." --Ben Lerner, BOMB Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his "prosodic mastery" and "keen moral intelligence" ( American Poets ), and for the "rigor, vigor, joy, and wit" 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, "a 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." Cole is a maker--of poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of the Jerusalem landscape's 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 original--"as though," in his own words, "living itself were an endless translation.", " Peter Cole's] 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 off--the affective range is wide and the forms restless." --Ben Lerner, BOMB Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his "prosodic mastery" and "keen moral intelligence" ( American Poets ), and for the "rigor, vigor, joy, and wit" 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, "a 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." Cole is a maker--of poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of the Jerusalem landscape's 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 original--"as though," in his own words, "living itself were an endless translation."
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