Henri Coulette, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Poet, educator
Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1927
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Death: 26-Mar-1988
Profession: poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Henri Coulette
- Henri Coulette (November 17, 1927 – March 26, 1988) was an American poet and educator.
- His first book, The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems (Scribner, 1965), was greeted with acclaim and won the Lamont Poetry Prize.
- His second collection, The Family Goldschmitt (Scribner, 1971), seems to have received little attention, and it has been reported that much of the print run was accidentally pulped.
- He did not publish another book during his life, but had been organizing a volume when he died.
- Of these later poems, Tad Richards has written, "Though only in his fifties, he surveys the territory of death, particularly in the near-perfect 'Petition,' an elegy for his cat, with a concreteness he did not often find in life." Two of Coulette's poems, "Night Thoughts" and "Postscript", were included in the 2003 anthology, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present; the editors write that "Coulette melded seamless metrics with a lifelong devotion to California icons like the LBG-30 (a Glendale computer), the noir Los Angeles memorialized by Raymond Chandler, and the gravesites of Hollywood movie stars."Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.
- He studied at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which he returned to California.
- He spent nearly his entire career as a faculty member at California State University, Los Angeles.
- After Coulette's death, the poets Donald Justice and Robert Mezey edited and published Coulette's collected poetry.
- The collection included a wealth of unpublished poems, and was published in 1990 by the University of Arkansas Press.
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