{"product_id":"touch-9780374533472","title":"Touch","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, \u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics--a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war--with a startling clarity. Cole's new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the body--both its pleasures and its discontents--and they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. Alternating between innocence and violent self-condemnation, between the erotic and the elegiac, and between thought and emotion, these poems represent a kind of mid-life selving that chooses life. With his simultaneous impulses to privacy and to connection, Cole neutralizes pain with understatement, masterful cadences, precise descriptions of the external world, and a formal dexterity rarely found in contemporary American poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouch \u003c\/i\u003eis a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenri Cole\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and was raised in Virginia. The recipient of many awards, he is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003ePierce the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2010); \u003ci\u003eBlackbird and Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2007); \u003ci\u003eMiddle Earth \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2003), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and \u003ci\u003eThe Visible Man \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526982832402,"sku":"9780374533472","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8d0f0d8-b2fe-46d2-96c5-273c10fe4705.jpg?v=1731288872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/touch-9780374533472","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}