{"id":7286,"date":"2019-03-18T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/peter-cole\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:12:16","slug":"peter-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/peter-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8849 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-1.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-3.jpg 733w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-4.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-5.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-6.jpg 301w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-7.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PC_AuthorPhoto-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957, Peter Cole is the author of five books of poems&mdash;most recently&nbsp;<em>Hymns &amp; Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations&nbsp;<\/em>(FSG, 2017)&mdash;and many volumes of translation from Hebrew and Arabic, medieval and modern.&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Praised for his &ldquo;prosodic mastery&rdquo; and &ldquo;keen moral intelligence&rdquo; (<em>The American Poet)<\/em>, and for the &ldquo;rigor, vigor, joy, and wit&rdquo; of his poetry (<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Paris Review<\/em>), Cole has created a body of work that defies traditional distinctions between old and new, foreign and familiar, translation and original. He is, Harold Bloom writes, &ldquo;a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation.&rdquo; Among his many honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Jewish National Book Award, the PEN Prize in Translation, and, in 2007, a MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8850\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-1.jpg 828w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-2.jpg 243w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-4.jpg 324w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-5.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-6.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-7.jpg 340w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-8.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Cole_HymnsQualms_Spine-3-9.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8851\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole-1.png 682w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole-2.png 200w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole-3.png 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole-4.png 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole-5.png 280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/petercole-6.png 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957, Peter Cole is the author of five books of poems&mdash;most recently&nbsp;Hymns &amp; Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations&nbsp;(FSG, 2017)&mdash;and many volumes of translation from Hebrew and Arabic, medieval and modern.&nbsp;&nbsp;Praised for his &ldquo;prosodic mastery&rdquo; and &ldquo;keen moral intelligence&rdquo; (The American Poet), and for the &ldquo;rigor, vigor, joy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7315,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/7315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}