Henri Cole
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Henri Cole (born 1956) is an American poet born in Fukuoka, Japan and raised in Virginia, United States. From 1982 until 1988 he was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since that time he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Brandeis University, Columbia University, Davidson College, Harvard University, Reed College, Smith College, and his alma mater, The College of William and Mary.
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[edit] Analysis of work
His work is autobiographical, but never sentimentally nor otherwise trivially so; his is a poetry of sensibility, exploring the contingencies of selfhood embodied, loss and exchange with an amazing clarity of vision and purity of diction. Cole's attentiveness both to suffering and delight is original and profound. Recurring symbols of horses, fine art, and classical representations of gender help elevate Cole among his contemporaries.
[edit] Books of poetry
- Blackbird and Wolf 2007 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Middle Earth 2003 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Visible Man 1998
- The Look of Things 1995
- The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge 1989
- The Marble Queen 1986
[edit] Awards and honors
- 2004 — Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Middle Earth
- 2004 — John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2004 — Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2004 — Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Middle Earth
- 2004 — Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry for Middle Earth
- 2001 — Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Artist Fellowship
- 2000 — Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
- 1995 — Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1993 — National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1989 — Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
