Peter Cole

Peter Cole is a MacArthur-winning poet and translator who lives in Jerusalem and New Haven. Cole was born in 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Williams College and Hampshire College, and moved to Jerusalem in 1981. He has been called one of the handful of authentic poets of his own American generation by the critic Harold Bloom. In a 2015 interview in The Paris Review, he described his work as poet and translator as at heart, the same activity carried out at different points along a spectrum.

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