Peter Cole on The Poetry of Kabbalah

MacArthur-winning poet-translator Peter Cole brings his remarkable gifts as a scholar of Hebrew poetry to the world of Jewish mystical literature in his groundbreaking new book of poems in translation, The Poetry of Kabbalah. Covering 3 continents and some 1,500 years, Cole reveals a subject that has hardly been explored before: the poetic aspects of Jewish mysticism. Daniel Matt, author of The Essential Kabbalah and translator of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition hosts this special conversation.