Nothing to Declare

✍ Scribed by Cole, Henri

• Book ID: 109810201
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 345 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780374713324

✦ Synopsis

**A bold new collection of poems of feral beauty and intense vulnerability
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The poems in Henri Cole's ninth book, Nothing to Declare ,__ explore life and need and delight. Each poem starts up from its own unique occasion and is then conducted through surprising (sometimes unnerving) and self-steadying domains. The result is a daring, delicate, unguarded, and tender collection. After his last three books--Touch , Blackbird and Wolf , and Middle Earth --in which the sonnet was a thrown shape and not merely a template, Cole's buoyant new poems seem trim and terse, with a first-place, last-ditch resonance. In their sorrowful richness, they combine a susceptibility to sensuousness and an awareness of desolation. With precise reliability of detail, a supple wealth of sound, and a speculative truthfulness, Cole transforms the pain of experience into the keen pleasure of expressive language. Nothing to Declare is a rare work,...