Louis Simpson

The Best Hour of the Night

originally published:
New Haven & New York : Ticknor & Fields
1983

We offered this copy of the first edition, inscribed by the poet to his son, in 2012.

reference info

bio notes:
born: 3/27/1923
died: 09/14/2012
born as: Louis Aston Marantz Simpson

Jamaican-born American poet and critic, notable for his marked development in poetic style. In 1964 he won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his volume At The End of the Open Road, Poems (1963) - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Images:

Photograph of Louis Simpson from the first edition of <i>Caviare at the Funeral</i>