Louise Glück's “Messengers”

HENRI COLE, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2010, is an award-winning American poet and Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is also poetry editor for The New Republic. His poetry collections include Touch (2011), Pierce the Skin (2010), Blackbird and Wolf (2007), and Middle Earth (2003), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.