[Rarebooks] FS: Al Poulin Archive to Archibald MacLeish

[Charles Agvent]

[MacLEISH, Archibald] POULIN, Al. ARCHIVE OF FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED 
(TLSs) and FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)TO ARCHIBALD MACLEISH. 
Hamden, CT, 1974 - 1977. Four handwritten letters and four typed 
letters, all SIGNED variously in full or as "Al," on different 
stationery, all addressed to "Mr. MacLeish," totaling 15 pages. Poulin 
covers much ground including his open-heart surgery, a proposed 
anthology of American poetry to coincide with the Bicentennial (Poulin 
had edited the 1971 anthology CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY), discussion 
of various forthcoming BOA publications including W. D. Snodgrass's THE 
FÜHRER BUNKER and Anthony Piccione's ANCHOR DRAGGING for which MacLeish 
wrote the foreword, comments on what it means to be a poet and the State 
University of New York at Brockport's The Writer's Forum series (Poulin 
taught there), as well as much else including MacLeish's effect on 
Poulin: "I hope you know that you continue to be a profound influence on 
many of us here-- we who continue to envy your serenity and wisdom and 
humanity and artistry. Increasingly I believe in some fate, some power 
outside of us that touches our lives. And in that light I believe your 
too brief visit to Brockport in 1974 was an act of that power intended 
to show me the grandeur of your life after so much destruction touched 
the edges of my life. I am in your debt every day, perhaps more so than 
you can possibly realize." One typed letter missing the first page. Near 
Fine.

Al Poulin (1938 - 1996) was an American poet, translator, and editor 
noted for his translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's DUINO ELEGIES and THE 
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS as well as being the founder and publisher of BOA 
Editions, now in its 45th year of publishing poetry. (#020633)        $750

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