Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is The Inven­tion of Influ­ence, which fol­lows his remark­able col­lec­tion Things on Which I’ve Stum­bled. His pre­vi­ous vol­umes–Rift and Hymns & Qualms–were col­lect­ed as What Is Dou­bled: Poems, 1981 – 1998. In addi­tion to his ND books with Aharon Shab­tai and Yoel Hoff­mann, Cole’s trans­la­tions from Hebrew and Ara­bic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poet­ry from Mus­lim and Chris­t­ian Spain, 950‑1492, Taha Muham­mad Ali’s So What: New & Select­ed Poems 1973 – 2005, Avra­ham Ben Yitzhak’s Col­lect­ed Poems, and The Poet­ry of Kab­bal­ah: Mys­ti­cal Verse from the Jew­ish Tra­di­tion. With Adi­na Hoff­man, he is the author of a vol­ume of non-fic­tion, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza. Cole has received numer­ous hon­ors for his work, includ­ing fel­low­ships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggen­heim Foun­da­tion, as well as the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for Poet­ry and the PEN Trans­la­tion Award for Poet­ry. He is the recip­i­ent of a 2010 Award in Lit­er­a­ture from the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Arts and Let­ters, and in 2007 was named a MacArthur Fel­low. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut.