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Peter Cole: The Poetry of Kabbalah

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Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Peter Cole

Peter Cole, acclaimed poet and translator, will visit Duke University and speak about his work and his new book "The Poetry of Kabbalah." A book signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase courtesy of the Gothic Bookshop. Cole is the author of three books of poems, most recently Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions). His many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Princeton), Aharon Shabtai's War and Love, Love and War: New & Selected Poems (New Directions), Taha Muhammad Ali's So What: New & Selected Poems 1973-2005 (Copper Canyon), Hebrew Writers on Writing (Trinity), and Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Schocken/Nextbook), written with Adina Hoffman. The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition is forthcoming from Yale U. Press's Margellos World Republic of Letters series. Cole has received numerous honors for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the Association of American Publishers' Hawkins Award for Book of the Year, the PEN Translation Award for Poetry, and a TLS Translation Prize. He is the recipient of a 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named a MacArthur Fellow.

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