{"product_id":"touch-9780374533472b","title":"Touch","description":"Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, \u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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. Alternating between innocence and violent self-condemnation, between the erotic and the elegiac, and between thought and emotion, these poems represent a kind of mid-life selving that chooses life. With his simultaneous impulses to privacy and to connection, Cole neutralizes pain with understatement, masterful cadences, precise descriptions of the external world, and a formal dexterity rarely found in contemporary American poetry.   \u003ci\u003eTouch\u003c\/i\u003e is a Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books title for 2011.  ","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821336989776,"sku":"9780374533472B","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374533472-l.jpg?v=1785883302","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/touch-9780374533472b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}