Peter Cole

Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is The Invention of Influence, which follows his remarkable collection Things on Which I’ve Stumbled. His previous volumes—Rift and Hymns & Qualms—were collected as What Is Doubled: Poems, 1981–1998. In addition to his ND books with Aharon Shabtai and Yoel Hoffmann, Cole’s translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492, Taha Muhammad Ali’s So What: New & Selected Poems 1973–2005, Avraham Ben Yitzhak’s Collected Poems, and The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition. With Adina Hoffman, he is the author of a volume of non-fiction, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza. Cole has received numerous honors for his work, including fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry and the PEN Translation Award for Poetry. He is the recipient of a 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named a MacArthur Fellow. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut.

Peter Cole

Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is The Invention of Influence, which follows his remarkable collection Things on Which I’ve Stumbled. His previous volumes—Rift and Hymns & Qualms—were collected as What Is Doubled: Poems, 1981–1998. In addition to his ND books with Aharon Shabtai and Yoel Hoffmann, Cole’s translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492, Taha Muhammad Ali’s So What: New & Selected Poems 1973–2005, Avraham Ben Yitzhak’s Collected Poems, and The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition. With Adina Hoffman, he is the author of a volume of non-fiction, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza. Cole has received numerous honors for his work, including fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry and the PEN Translation Award for Poetry. He is the recipient of a 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named a MacArthur Fellow. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut.

Books by Peter Cole

  • Things on Which I've Stumbled

    Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2008

    Remarkable poetry by the widely acclaimed poet and translator of Hebrew and Arabic poetry.
  • Moods

    Yoel Hoffmann, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2015

    Yoel Hoffmann—“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)—supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinite
  • J'Accuse

    Aharon Shabtai, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2003

    Explosive poems by an Israeli accusing his country of crimes against humanity.
  • Curriculum Vitae

    Yoel Hoffmann, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2009

    “The most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel.”—Review Of Contemporary Fiction
  • War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems

    Aharon Shabtai, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2011

    A rich, far-ranging, powerful selection of a lifetime’s work by the Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, “one of the most exciting writers working in Hebrew today” (Ha’aretz).
  • Moods

    Yoel Hoffmann, Peter Cole

    E Book, 2015

    Yoel Hoffmann—“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)—supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinite
  • Requiem: & Other Poems

    Aharon Shabtai, Peter Cole

    Paperback, 2025

    Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for peace, Requiem and Other Poems cries out for an end to unspeakable violence
  • Requiem: & Other Poems

    Aharon Shabtai, Peter Cole

    E Book

    Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for peace, Requiem and Other Poems cries out for an end to unspeakable violence
  • The Buses Roll

    Linn Underhill, Carol Baldwin, Peter T. Whitney, Erik H. Erikson, Robert Coles

    Paperback, 1974

  • Twelve To Sixteen: Early Adolescence

    Jerome Kagan, Robert Coles, J.M. Tanner, Chad Gordon, Peter Blos, David Bakan, Joseph Adelson, Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Edward C. Martin, John Janeway Conger, Phyllis La Farge, Thomas J. Cottle, Tina deVaron, John H. Gagnon

    Paperback, 1972