This year Ravenna published its third book by Gregory K. Cole, a poet and experimentalist of high order. In his most accessible work, Cole puts poetry into the realm of nearly-able-to-touch that transportation promises. Cole is a professor of Spanish at Newberry College, South Carolina. HIs book features a terrific cover by Julia Luisa Pacheco Cole. A fine, unclassifiable book!
Cooper Renner has written of his poetry: The emphasis on the music of words…demand that one grope through them, into their depths, to puzzle out their “sense.” Taut, clever, occasionally playfully deceptive if one is not as careful in reading as Cole is in writing, these poems display an individual voice and sensibility at variance with almost everything current in our literature…it is a rarefied intellect at work here.
