About the Author

Lyn Coffin is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama and translation. She has won several grants and awards, including the SABA Prize in 2016. One of her short fictions was in the Best American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates. She has translated Mohsen Emadi, Jiri Orten, Dato Barbakadze. Her plays have been performed intenationally, as well as in several US cities, including on off-off Broadway in New York. This year will see the publication of her novel, The Aftermath, her children's book, Henry & Punkin, and a bilingual edition of her poetry and that of Mercedes Luna Fuentes, and a book of aphorisms from Rustaveli. Her work has been translated into many languages.

Reviews

Lyn Coffin has been a poet and translator for many years, often working in the shadows and margins of American literary culture. I welcome this long overdue Selected Poems, and I hope it will attract a broader-and much deserved- audience for this unique poet. -Sam Hamill I have read Lyn Coffin's newest book twice through and I loved it. The poems have the unique quality of being both emotionally raw with frayed nerve ends and finely crafted at the same time. Truth becomes naked in exquisite detail laced by rhyme and attention to language without presenting answers or resolution to pain and conundrum. -Judith Roche A word must tremble once touched with the hands of anxiety and longing, danger and wonder-- all that forms our sensibility. That trembling word breaks the eggshell of common language and enters into the cosmos of Poetry. Lyn Coffin's constant search to touch the sensibilities of foreign languages and beings, her wonder and anxiety, bring a voice to American poetry that embraces us with the open arms of many nations. East and West, far and near, mingle in a cry, the cry of a word to be reborn and yes, here, page by page, we can observe the rebirth of words. -Mohsen Emadi "Lyn Coffin's poetry takes us, sometimes even within a single verse, from the unexpected to the sublime. Imagery and ideas, music and playfulness: very seldom do we find a poet as fresh and, at the same time, as solid as Coffin. A real revelation." --Enrique Servin