Guy Goffette
Guy Goffette (author page at Amazon
) is the author of six books of poems,
the most recent of which, Un manteau de fortune (Gallimard
2001), received the Grand Prix de Poésie de l’Académie
Française for that year. He is also the author of Elle,
par bonheur et toujours nue, an imaginative essay/memoir about
Bonnard, and Verlaine d’ardoise et de pluie, a similarly
idiosyncratic book on Verlaine. He received the Grand Prix de Poésie
de la Société des Gens de Lettres in 1999 for the
totality of his work. Other poems of his, in Marilyn Hacker’s
translation, have appeared in The Paris Review, The New England
Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly,
New Letters, Barrow Street, PN Review, and Poetry
London (England). (2005)
AGNI has published the following work by Guy Goffette:
