Henri Cole

Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

January 25, 2010
*  [Starred Review]
Cole is nothing if not constantly intense on the page — his verse  . . . carries a kind of religious weight, as if sadness itself were a ticket out of Hell . . . In Cole’s poems, the stakes are always impossibly high, and every insight is deeply costly. But perhaps that’s the price for being able to say, “I can feel my heart beating inside my heart.”  

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