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Peter Cole was born in in Paterson, New Jersey.!
Peter Cole was born in Paterson/New Jersey, USA, in He began studying Hebrew in Jerusalem in , and has since divided his time between Israel and the.
Peter Cole
American poet (born 1957)
For other people named Peter Cole, see Peter Cole (disambiguation).
Peter Cole (born 1957) 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.[1] 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."[2]
Literary career
In addition to its focus on what he calls "deep translation,"[2] Cole's work as both a poet and a translator reflects a sustained engagement with the cultures of Judaism and especially of the Middle East.
He is, Eliot Weinberger has written, "an urban poet whose city is Jerusalem; a classicist whose Anti
