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Touch: Poems by Henri Cole

purplepaperback's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

hazelstaybookish's review against another edition

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3.0

Actual rating: 3.5

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5.0

the nice thing about rereading poetry that u worked hard at unraveling before is that all my notes are still there! this is perhaps the first time I've run into useful penciled marks during a reread, which makes sense, because I didn't really get the hang of it til mid-college.

anyway Henri Cole is also one of the few people I like to revisit. touch is published with this lovely textured cover, and while it digs toward the darkness- a mother's death, a lovers addiction, war and murder- it is soft, removed, often gentle. often the nature allegories.

my favorites are the ones that get informal about love and loneliness, breaking the walls of natural remove into intense self-reflection and dropping a "ur" instead of a "you're."
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