PETER COLE’s most recent book of poems is The Invention of Influence. His award-winning translations include The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition. Sacred Trash, co-written with Adina Hoffman, was winner of the 2012 American Library Association's Sophie Brody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature and was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.