The Invention of Influence [Paperback]

Peter Cole has been called an inspired writer (Cole (Cole is not a household name, but this MacArthur Fellow has had a long and impressive career as a poet. There is a quiet, streaming power in his work that leads the reader back to it over and over again.Coles poetry is remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off  the affective range is wide and the forms restless.A dazzling new book by a writer with perhaps the most capacious command of the Jewish poetic tradition of any poet now writing in English (