New and Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Coulette, Henri

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800175523 ISBN 13 : 9781800175525

Editeur : Carcanet Classics, 2026

Synopsis

This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry’s best-kept secrets.

Suave, secretive and self-condemned to obscurity, Henri Coulette (1927–88) was a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and winner the Lamont Poetry Prize. He stood out for his unfashionably brilliant command of poetry’s formal resources, and the idiosyncratic range of his concerns, which include film noir and espionage, not to mention life’s little ironies and larger tragedies. To read him, Zbigniew Herbert felt, was to be ‘in the presence of a major poet’, and one who had ‘seized upon thematic material of central importance to the modern world’.

Henri Coulette (1927–88), who spent most of his life in Los Angeles, was regarded as a master craftsman and a quiet original by his teachers Robert Lowell and John Berryman, his peers Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass, Thom Gunn, and Philip Levine.

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À propos de l'auteur

Henri Coulette (1927-1988), who spent most of his life in Los Angeles, was regarded as a master craftsman and a quiet original by his teachers Robert Lowell and John Berryman, his peers Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass, Thom Gunn, and Philip Levine, and his students Wanda Coleman, Michael Harper, and Luis Omar Salinas. His first volume, The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems (1966), won the Lamont Poetry Prize and received significant praise, but his second, The Family Goldschmitt (1971), was accidentally pulped by the distributor. A third volume only saw publication as part of his Collected Poems (1990), now long out of print.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Classics
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800175523
• ISBN 13: 9781800175525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Éditeur: Caines Michael, Dralyuk Boris
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