Blackbird and Wolf: Poems

Any new book by Henri Cole is cause for celebration, and no one who cares about contemporary American poetry would want to miss this one. Reading it, I understood why Harold Bloom put him with Anne Carson and called him a "leading poet of his generation." The precision and beauty of the language are matched by the acute and compassionate eye the poet turns on human relationships and desires. Nothing showy or wasteful ever in these poems; always the sad, funny, tender, devastating truth. I've read it twice already.