{"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\u003ci\u003eTouch \u003c\/i\u003eis a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374533472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 5.55w x 0.34d","brand":"Henri Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636664627356,"sku":"9780374533472","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_459d4e26-5bb7-4dec-abb0-9e47c909f406.jpg?v=1603842578","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/touch-9780374533472","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}