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"Middle Earth is Henri Cole's epiphany, his Whitmanesque
sunrise. The modulation of these poems is extraordinary: they have a continuous undersong. 'It must give pleasure,'
Stevens said. So oxymoronic is pleasure-pain, in Henri Cole, that we need to modify Stevens. But for now, poems
like 'Icarus Breathing,' 'Original Face,' and 'Olympia' are the poems of our climate. Henri
Cole has become a master poet, with few peers."
-- Harold Bloom
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