“And Blackbird and Wolf is a powerful and masterful book: powerful in the psychological directness of its self-scrutiny, and masterful in its achievement of a poetry so artful it almost seems artless.”īorn in Japan and raised in Virginia, Cole received his MFA from Columbia University in 1982. “Henri Cole has become one of his generation’s most assured and accomplished poets,” said Koethe. Cole’s collection was selected by poets Lucie Brock-Broido, B. The $25,000 prize is given annually to honor a book of poetry published in United States in the previous year.
The Academy of American Poets announced last week that Henri Cole received the 2008 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his collection Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
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