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Thimble City
“Anything can happen in Thimble City,
because you run it.”
—ad for a Remco toy
A filling station, a car,
a skyscraper, and a house—
that’s enough for any town.
The car, full of gasoline,
goes a hundred miles an hour,
but no one ever drives it.
Where’s to go? The skyscraper
has a poet in every room,
and each poet is a school
unto himself. And the house?
The house is where the lovers
(meaning you, meaning me) live.
It is where we never hurt
each other, and is no place
I have been to or heard of.
From New and Selected Poems by Henri Coulette
About the book:
This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry’s best-kept secrets.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.
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Join editors Michael Caines and Boris Dralyuk for the online launch of New and Selected Poems on Tuesday 28 April. Tickets here.
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