"These are hopeful and gilded poems, managing to suggest the rich life of the mind but never abandoning the body. [ The Other Love ] reveals a new edge to Cole's voice--composed, taut with nerves, but tempered with wisdom . These are exemplary lyrics of witness." --Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "Cole has not compromised any of the principles established in his work from early on. Continuing to write with brio. [these] reassuring lyrics suggest that no matter what terror comes along, our noble charge is to fight to the end, joyously." --Michael Londra, Arts Fuse "Cole's latest collection meditates on aging and the passage of time through explorations of portraiture, everyday domesticity, and interestingly, plant and animal life. The poems are also political--snapshots of the current era in the U.

S.--whether captured at a cautious distance. or loaded with more sinister implications." -- Diego Báez, Booklist.