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Peter Cole

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Peter Cole

Peter Cole’s most recent book is Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (FSG). The author of four previous books of poems and many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic, he has received numerous honors for his work, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and a MacArthur Fellowship....

A new collection, Draw Me After, is forthcoming from FSG in 2022. Cole divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven.

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Articles by Peter Cole

A Dove in the Distance
By Yehudah HaLevi
she flew up, flustered, hovering, / circling round her lover. 
Translated from Hebrew by Peter Cole
Gold
By Moshe Ibn Ezra
If He kills me still I will trust in Him.
Translated from Hebrew by Peter Cole