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Christopher Lydon: Out of Yearning, Order: Henri Cole's poetry

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The poet Henri Cole got his French first name from his Armenian mother. From his father, a military man, he got his Southern speech and, in what sounds like sadness and irony, "a knack for solitude." Poetry was the place where as a young gay man he worked through yearning and anger to astringency and order. French, Armenian and English were the languages of his home growing up in Virginia in the sixties and seventies, he told me when we spoke ...

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