Draw Me After by Peter Cole

Cole's splendid ear orchestrates awakenings." - Forrest Gander, author
of Twice Alive
Peter Cole's luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving
to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves a supple, singular music that charts
regions of wonder and danger, from Eden as a place of first response and
responsibility to modern sites of natural and political catastrophe.
At the heart of the volume lie two remarkable series: one translates drawings
by Terry Winters into a textured language spun from the material abstractions
of Winters's art; the other winds through the book in dreamlike fashion,
offering prismatic and often haunting meditations on the letters of the Hebrew
alphabet - in kabbalistic tradition, the building blocks of existence. Inventive
and receptive, physical, metaphysical, and playful, Cole's poetry disturbs and
enchants with "a quiet, streaming power . . . that leads the reader back to it
over and over again" (Ray Gonzalez, The Bloomsbury Review ).
Praise for Draw Me After
Peter Cole has been merging the work of poet and translator for nearly half a
century, reminding us that writing is always a translation - of thought, impulse,
feeling, memory, image, time . . . Cole's voice is incomparable." - Jesse
Nathan, McSweeney's
"It is rare for a poet to produce a book as memorable as The Invention of
Influence (2014) and then bring forth another title that is just as distinct and
remarkable . . . An outstanding collection." - Michael Autrey,Booklist (Starred
Review)
"A stunning book. Beautiful, delicate (...)

Peter Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. He has written several
previous books of poems, including Hymns & Qualms and Rift, and he has
also translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic works - both medieval and
modern. He is the recipient of many honors, including a Guggenheim
Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, and a
MacArthur Fellowship. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New
Haven.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On Sale: Nov 14/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 128 pages
8 Black-and-White Images in Text
9780374607876 • $23.00 • pb
Poetry / American