Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Peter Cole

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957, Peter Cole is the author of five books of poems—most recently Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (FSG, 2017)—and many volumes of translation from Hebrew and Arabic, medieval and modern.  Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (The American Poet), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), 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, “a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation.” 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.

 

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  1. This interview was great! Thanks Brainard! I’ve been adding poetry with my artwork and it’s wonderful to hear about collaboration between a poet and a visual artist. Very interesting! And…FYI I’m one of your Praxis students. Great stuff here!

  2. […] Peter Cole is is a poet who works prodigiously with painters. Recently he has worked with Terry Winters who asked him to write about his current works. Some of that series appeared n Paris Review and sparked a series of work from Winters in turn which again sparked another series of writing and so forth. […]

  3. […] Peter Cole is is a poet who works prodigiously with painters. Recently he has worked with Terry Winters who asked him to write about his current works. Some of that series appeared n Paris Review and sparked a series of work from Winters in turn which again sparked another series of writing and so forth. […]

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