New and Selected Poems

This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry’ s best-kept secrets.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