Cole's private but accessible poems reconnect with the life of the senses ... Direct and elegant ... Blackbird and Wolf dazzles. — Katie Peterson,
Chicago Tribune


Mr. Cole is peerless, and this collection proves it.         — Michael Brendan Dougherty, 
The Washington Times


Henri Cole's tranquil vistas are dappled with a chiaroscuro of pain ... In his dogged attempts to embrace nature's apparent grotesqueries, Cole approaches the sublime that Wordsworth defined as a mixture of awe and terror ... Blackbird and Wolf is Cole's most moving book to date. — Phoebe Pettingell, 
The New Leader