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Henri Cole’s “Self-Portrait with Rifle”

By Clare Fentress

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Abraham Hondius, The Deer Hunt, ca. 1650–95.

Abraham Hondius, The Deer Hunt(detail), ca. 1650–95.

Henri Cole contributed two poems to our Summer issue, “Self-Portrait with Rifle” and “Free Dirt.” They pair well; both wrestle with the baseness humanity is capable of, and particularly with the surprise we feel when we find such baseness in ourselves. “Self-Portrait with Rifle” illustrates this shock with a jarring scene: a man holding a gun, indignant at his victims—innocent deer—for yielding their lives to his misplaced violence.

 

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