Henri Cole

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Henri Cole (born May 9, 1956) is an American poet, who has published many collections of poetry and a memoir. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Arabic.

Biography

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French-Armenian<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in Marseille, met Cole's mother, who worked at the PX. Together they lived in Japan, Germany, Illinois, California, Nevada, Missouri and Virginia, where Cole attended public schools and the College of William and Mary. He has published twelve collections of poetry in English.

From 1982 until 1988 he was executive director of The Academy of American Poets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since that time he has held many teaching positions and been artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Brandeis University, Columbia University, Davidson College, Harvard University, Ohio State University, Reed College, Smith College, The College of William and Mary, and Yale University. He has collaborated with the visual artists Jenny Holzer and Kiki Smith.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> And from 2010 to 2014, he was poetry editor of The New Republic. Cole currently teaches at Claremont McKenna College.

Books of poetry

  • 2025: The Other Love, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • 2023: Gravity and Center (Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022), New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • 2023: Blizzard (German translation by Henning Ahrens), Munich: Hanser Verlag, Edition Lyrik Kabinett
  • 2021: Der sichtbare Mensch, Ausgewählte Gedicht (German translation by Hans Raimund), Vienna: Löcker
  • 2020: Blizzard, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2015: Nothing to Declare, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2015: Le Merle, Le Loup suivi de Toucher (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Le bruit du temps<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2011: Touch, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2011: Terre Médiane (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Le bruit du temps<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2010: Mirlo y Lobo (Spanish translation by Eduardo López Truco), Cantabria: Quálea Editorial<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2010: Autoritratto con Gatti (Italian translation by Massimo Bacigalupo), Parma: Guanda Editore<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2010: Pierce the Skin (Selected Poems, 1982-2007), New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2008: La Apariencia de la Cosas (Spanish translation by Eduardo López Truco), Cantabria: Quálea Editorial<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2007: Blackbird and Wolf, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2005: Vingt-Deux Poèmes (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Yvon Lambert<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2003: Middle Earth, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1998: The Visible Man, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1995: The Look of Things<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 1989: The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1986: The Marble Queen<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Books of prose

  • 2020: باريس الأورفيّة: السّياحة الأدبية في باريس (Orphic Paris, Arabic translation by Amani Lazar), United Arab Emirates: Rewayat Books<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2018: Orphic Paris, New York, New York Review Books<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2018: Paris-Orphée (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Le bruit du temps<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Awards and honors

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  • 2014 — Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Fellow<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2012 — The Thom Gunn Award for Poetry for Touch,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2011 — Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa poet<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2011 — Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry for Pierce the Skin (Selected Poems 1982-2007)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2007 — United States Artists USA Hildreth/Williams Fellow, Literature<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2004 — Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Middle Earth<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Personal life

Cole is openly gay, though in his early work he turned to "nature as a mask for writing about private feelings."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He came out as he "felt a need to speak as a gay man, since until recently we were not encouraged by society to love one another, marry, and have children. So if I have an ethics, it is simply to be true, but never at the expense of original language."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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