Peter Cole

Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is The Invention of Influence (New Directions).

Photograph courtesy Adina Hoffman.

Through the Slaughter

Through the Slaughter Through the Slaughter

and Bialik
 Sky—have mercy. When flechettes fly forth from a shell,
 shot by a tank
 taking Ezekiel’s
 chariot’s name—
 When their thin fins invisibly whiz, whiflling the air…

Nov 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole

Of Time and Intensity Of Time and Intensity

Is Time a dispersion of intensity? For epiphanists, maybe, but not for me— for whom Time is a transposition of immensity into a lower key.

Jul 10, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole

Tutelary Tutelary

Solace from anemones, sepals of instinct pushing the air. Why do they matter so much, there in the room at noon while nothing moves around them: scarlet, creams, and burgundies, magenta, bone-white, and bruise-like blues; the wind’s daughter, or bride, for some, for others a temple to the wounds of Tammuz— or living itself, wordless, longing. Where is that luminous lusciousness from?

Jun 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole

Three Poems by Peter Cole

Three Poems by Peter Cole Three Poems by Peter Cole

"Leviticus Again," "Of Time and Intensity," "Tutelary"

May 7, 2012 / Peter Cole

Israel Is Israel Is

Israel Is Israel is he or she who wrestles with God--call him what you will, not some goon (with a rabbi and gun) in a pre-fab home on a biblical hill....

Apr 3, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cole

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