Peter Cole

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Full Name	Peter Cole
Date Of Birth	Aug 19, 1957(1957-08-19)
Age	67
Birthplace	Paterson
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Leo

Peter Cole Biography

Peter Cole is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on August 19, 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States.

Cole’s first book of poems, Rift, was published in 1989 by Station Hill Press. His subsequent volumes of poetry include What is Doubled: Poems 1981-1998 (Shearsman, UK), Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions, 2008), and The Invention of Influence (New Directions, 2014), which was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. That book included an extended dramatic poem about the maverick Vienna psychoanalyst Victor Tausk and his notion of “the influence machine.” In a 2013 interview with Bookslut, Cole talked about the poem as “a case history of susceptibility” and about the influence machine as a figure for literary tradition: “We’re always being manipulated by forces outside us – familial, fraternal, sexual, social, and literary presences that have brought us to a given moment or scene of ‘translation,’ or expression. And then we’re taken over, as it were, or even possessed by the various presences that enter our lives, for better and worse – consciously and unconsciously. We’re inhabited. These presences live on in us and in some cases become ingrained in us, as habit. And these habits in turn draw other presences to and through us. As poets, as makers, even as readers, whenever we’re in the space of the poem, we’re constantly in the process of being made and being had – in all senses of the term, positive and negative. There’s something marvelous and exhilarating about this, but also terrifying. One’s made greater, clearly, but also runs the risk of ceasing to be one self, which is to say, oneself.”

Cole has also worked intensively on Hebrew literature, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew poetry. His 2007 anthology, The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry in Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Princeton)—recipient of the National Jewish Book Award and winner of the American Publishers Association’s award for Book of the Year—traces the arc of the entire period. Poet and translator Richard Howard described Cole’s work as “an entire revelation: a body of lyric and didactic verse so intense, so intelligent, and so vivid that it appears to identify a whole dimension of historical consciousness previously unavailable to us.” The New York Times Book Review wrote that “his versions are masterly.”

Peter Cole Net Worth

Peter Cole is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Cole 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Cole is a MacArthur-winning poet and translator who lives in Jerusalem and New Haven. Cole was born in 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Williams College and Hampshire College, and moved to Jerusalem in 1981. He has been called “one of the handful of authentic poets of his own American generation” by the critic Harold Bloom. In a 2015 interview in The Paris Review, he described his work as poet and translator as “at heart, the same activity carried out at different points along a spectrum.”

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Top Facts about Peter Cole

1. Peter Cole is an American poet, translator, and essayist.
2. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1957.
3. Cole has published several poetry collections and translations of Hebrew literature.
4. He co-founded the Ibis Editions publishing house in Jerusalem.
5. Cole has received numerous awards for his writing and translation work.
6. His poetry often explores themes of identity, history, and spirituality.
7. Cole’s translations include works by medieval Jewish poets such as Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi.
8. He has also translated contemporary Israeli poets like Aharon Shabtai and Tuvia Ruebner.
9. In addition to his literary work, Cole is a scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy.
10. He currently teaches at Yale University in the Department of Comparative Literature.