Peter Cole

Peter Cole’s most recent books include Draw Me After: Poems; That Simple?... and That Complicated: Conversations on Poetry and Translation; and Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations. Among his collections of translations are The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 and The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition, as well as contemporary poetry and fiction by Aharon Shabtai, Taha Muhammad Ali, Yoel Hoffmann, Harold Schimmel, and others. Cole has received numerous honors for his work, among them an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the PEN Translation Prize, fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation, a National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

  • On the Slaughter
    On the Slaughter
    On the Slaughter Hayim Nahman Bialik
    Publication Date: Oct 21, 2025
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