Many of his poems focus on his parents and his childhood others offer glimpses into his romantic longings and relationships. The author of seven collections of poetry and the current poetry editor of The New Republic, he describes himself as an autobiographical poet. Now 55, Cole is one of his generation’s most accomplished poets. “I was a shy young man, but when I put pen to paper, I had things to say,” he says. Cole grew up speaking French, Armenian, and English, an experience, he says, that “made me see language as a prism, instead of a transparent window.” He began writing poems as a teenager. His mother was Armenian, his father a Southerner from Virginia. It is no accident that language-and cadence-plays a central role in Henri Cole’s poems. Twitter Facebook Henri Cole will read from his new collection of poems, Touch, at tonight’s Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture.
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