Born in 1938 in Lisbon, Maine, A. Poulin,
Jr. was the author of six books of poetry, a major translator
of both the French
and German poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, the editor of Contemporary
American Poetry (Houghton-Mifflin), and the founder, in 1976,
of BOA Editions, Ltd. Mentor to numerous contemporary poets
and scholars, Poulin died in 1996.
BOA books by A. Poulin, Jr.:
A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems