Henri Cole\'s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent.
Alternating between innocence and violent self.
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.
In his new book, Touch , 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.
Henri Cole\'s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent