{"product_id":"touch-paperback-6","title":"Touch - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenri Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, \u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics--a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war--with a startling clarity. Cole's new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the body--both its pleasures and its discontents--and they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. Alternating between innocence and violent self-condemnation, between the erotic and the elegiac, and between thought and emotion, these poems represent a kind of mid-life selving that chooses life. With his simultaneous impulses to privacy and to connection, Cole neutralizes pain with understatement, masterful cadences, precise descriptions of the external world, and a formal dexterity rarely found in contemporary American poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouch \u003c\/i\u003eis a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenri Cole\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and was raised in Virginia. The recipient of many awards, he is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003ePierce the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2010); \u003ci\u003eBlackbird and Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2007); \u003ci\u003eMiddle Earth \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2003), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and \u003ci\u003eThe Visible Man \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.31 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134148579463,"sku":"9780374533472","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9cd0eb72147730a285c015d41defc8d0.webp?v=1732639449","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/touch-paperback-6","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}