New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with "a quality of daring that is rare in our poetry" (Louise Glueck).

I take joy in considering my generation. I…

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has whittled his detective agency down to a single operative: a man named John Henry Cole. Cole is the…

John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker’s court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot…

This pamphlet was written by Henry Cole, the first Director of the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London. In it, he discusses the role of…

A GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS

Henri Cole has been described as a fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the…

Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and prose poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American…

I don’t want words to sever me from reality. I don’t want to need them. I want nothing to reveal feeling but feeling–as in freedom,
or the knowledge of peace…