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Things on Which I've Stumbled "Peter Cole is best known as a matchless translator of Hebrew poetry. With Things on Which I've Stumbled he matures into one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation." Harold Bloom |
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Hymns & Qualms "Another masterpiece. [Hymns & Qualms] shows Cole working in long sequences, in Jabès-like narratives as well as tighter short forms.... Whatever the form, one thread flows through the whole: a master's control of the language." Shearsman Magazine (UK) |
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What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 "An urban poet whose city is Jerusalem; a classicist whose Antiquity is medieval Hebrew; a sensualist whose objects of delight are Mediterranean; an avant-gardist whose forms are the meditation, the song, the jeremiad, the proverb: Late in the story, American modernism has invented a Jewish poet who is more than tangentially Jewish, and one whose affinities are older than the Yiddish immigrant traditions. This is not a varnish of local color, but an unexpected opening: a new archaic bringing a new 'deep song.'" Eliot Weinberger |
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Rift "Rift is a terrific book of poetry, let alone an astonishing first book." Chicago Review "There is no waste to this poetry and, more important, everything there is worth having, alive and on the move - 'A way cut to the letter,' in his words." John Ashbery |
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Prose: Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (with Adina Hoffman) Schocken/Nextbook, April 2011 “A small masterpiece. The romance of Hebrew scholarship has never been so vividly conveyed. This book is extraordinary in characterization, thought, and prose style. It will teach common readers, Jewish and Gentile, how much spiritual tradition owes to the greatest scholars. This teaching comes through delight.” Harold Bloom
"Sacred Trash is a jewel of a book: a lively and deeply informed account of the Cairo Geniza, a magnificent Egyptian treasure-house of Jewish religion, literature and history, that was forgotten for centuries, and of the extraordinary crew of scholars and impresarios who saved the documents, fitted the scraps back together and made them speak and sing."
Anthony Grafton,
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