An Evening of Poetry with Henri Cole

 An Evening of Poetry with Henri Cole

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We are excited to welcome Henri Cole back into the library to share his most recent collection of poems, The Other Love.

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The Other Love is a reflection on aging and the passing of time. It is here that the struggle between form and chaos is most poignantly palpable in Henri Cole’s ravishing new book.

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The Other Love is also a way of seeing the world, an attitude more than an emotion, a love of things and people as they are, and of being open to the beauty and mysteries of the world, despite a constant awareness of violence, particularly an American violence. As the Nobel laureate Louise Glück wrote, “Here indeed is a triumphant achievement from a consummate artist.

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About Henri Cole

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Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan to a French mother and an American father. He has published eleven collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published Orphic Paris, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and is a new homeowner in the Borough of Stonington.

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For more information visit: www.stoningtonfreelibrary.org

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