{"product_id":"cole-henri-orphic-parpb","title":"Cole, Henri: Orphic Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eNYRB, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 03, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHenri Cole's \u003ci\u003eOrphic Paris\u003c\/i\u003e combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, \"For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.\" Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus--mystic, oracular, entrancing-- \u003ci\u003eOrphic Paris \u003c\/i\u003eis an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817251909655,"sku":"9781681372181","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81GbNg6qo-L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1767998151","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/cole-henri-orphic-parpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}