The true star of this collection of poetic essays is Paris itself. The city reveals its secrets to Cole at every turn, and he in turn shows them to us. From the café with an Old-World atmosphere frequented by Hemingway to the paint shop where Cezanne and Monet bought supplies, this is a Paris bursting with art and culture. Cole’s vivid prose and the photos that accompany it let us imagine ourselves sitting at the table sipping coffee or wandering the cobble streets with him, and his candid description of each day provides plenty of fodder for dreaming of a Paris trip of your own.
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956 and raised in Virginia. He received his BA from the College of William and Mary in 1978, his MA from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1980, and his MFA from Columbia University in 1982. His volumes of poetry include: Nothing to Declare: Poems, Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007 , Blackbird and Wolf, the 2008 recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Middle Earth ,which received the 2004 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mark Calkins, PH.D. (moderator), is on the Lecturer Faculty in the Department of Comparative and World Literature, College of Liberal and Creative Arts, San Francisco State University. He has been the moderator of Mechanics' Institute's dedicated Proust Group for over ten years.
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