Cole, Peter

Coming from Cole’s fascination with word play and paradox, the best of these poems are laced with alliteration and rhyme, shape-shifting as they focus on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the creative process. For poetry readers who like pondering deep questions.

Veteran poet and MacArthur Fellow Cole (Things on Which I've Stumbled) writes beautifully about the intricacies of the world that we see and the one we imagine and connect our thoughts to—"He turns the wind into his messenger...