The Black Angel (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henri Coulette
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Midwest, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Cemeteries, Angels, Statues
The Poem
“The Black Angel” is a distilled version of a longer poem by Henri Coulette about a memorial statue of a black angel that stands in the midst of an Iowa City cemetery. A number of Coulette’s contemporaries also wrote poems about this statue, though his contemporaries did not publish their poems. Coulette seems to have been uncertain about what he wanted to do with the figure; he wrote at least three versions of the poem, eventually condensing it so far as to make the reference of the title and the line “I will not meet her eye” somewhat obscure.
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