Pierce the skin selected poems, 1982-2007 /

Collects verses that explore the desire for connection, the contingences of human love, and nature's renewal.

Main Author: Cole, Henri,
Other Authors: Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.
Physical Description: 140 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • V-winged and hoary
  • Heart of the monarch
  • The mare
  • The marble queen
  • Father's jewelry box
  • The annulment
  • A half-life
  • White sheets
  • Ascencion on Fire Island
  • The zoo wheel of knowledge
  • The pink and the black
  • Paper dolls
  • 40 days and 40 nights
  • The Roman baths at Nîmes
  • You come when I call you
  • The minimum circus
  • Harvard classics
  • Une lettre à New York
  • Tarantula
  • Buddha and the seven tiger cubs
  • Apostasy
  • White spine
  • Adam dying
  • from
  • Chiffon morning
  • The Coast Guard station
  • Horses
  • Black mane
  • from
  • Apollo
  • Self-portrait in a gold kimono
  • Icarus breathing
  • The hare
  • Kayaks
  • Radiant ivory
  • Ape house, Berlin zoo
  • Black camellia
  • Landscape with deer and figure
  • Green shade
  • Myself with cats
  • Pillowcase with praying mantis
  • Original face
  • Mask
  • My tea ceremony
  • Self-portrait as the red princess
  • Olympia
  • Snow moon flower
  • Blur
  • Sycamores
  • Mimosa sensitiva
  • Gulls
  • Oil & steel
  • Twilight
  • To sleep
  • The tree cutters
  • Self-portrait with hornets
  • Gravity and center
  • American kestrel
  • Homosexuality
  • Poppies
  • Bowl of lilacs
  • Shaving
  • My weed
  • Self-portrait with red eyes
  • Beach walk
  • Dead wren
  • To the forty-third President
  • Dune.