Draw Me After: Poems

By Peter Cole

Book Overview

"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 Gonz?lez, The Bloomsbury Review).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037460536X
• ISBN13: 9780374605360
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"