The Visible Man: Poems
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 04/01/2000
Description:
"To write what is human, not escapist", is Henri Cole's project as a poet. In this book, now in paperback, he pursues this aim by folding autobiography and memory into thirty severe and fiercely truthful lyrics. They explore, with boldness, the psyche of a man at the end of the 20th century.
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White Spine
Liar, I thought, kneeling with the others,
how can He love me and hate what I am?
The dome of St. Peter's shone yellowish
gold, like butter and eggs. My God, I prayed
anyhow, as if made in the image
and likeness of Him. Nearby, a handsome
priest looked at me like a stone; I looked back,
not daring to go it alone.
The college of cardinals wore punitive red.
The white spine waved to me from his white throne.
Being in a place not my own, much less
myself, I climbed out, a beast in a crib.
Somewhere a terrorist rolled a cigarette.
Reason, not faith, would change him.
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