The Other Love: Poems

"I receive each new book by Henri Cole as a bright gift, dark though it may be. Cole intimately observes the everyday, drilling gently into the underbelly of whatever is before him – “armored vehicles” that “confront young people,” the indignities of app-based dating, the young T.S. Eliot in the extraordinary closing poem – softly drawing blood, if such a thing is possible, seeking the moments when “Darkness will no longer exceed light.”"