Draw Me After: Poems

“Cole’s splendid ear orchestrates awakenings.” –Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive

Peter Cole’s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.

At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one translates drawings by Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions of Winters’s art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion, offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet–in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole’s poetry disturbs and enchants with “a quiet, streaming power . . . that leads the reader back to it over and over again” (Ray Gonz疝ez, The Bloomsbury Review).

Author: Peter Cole
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780374607876
Language: English