Coffin, Robert P Tristram
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▪ American poet
born March 18, 1892, Brunswick, Maine, U.S.
died January 20, 1955, Portland, Maine
American poet whose works, based on New England farm and seafaring life, were committed to cheerful depiction of the good in the world.
Coffin regarded poetry as a public function that should speak well of life so that people might find inspiration. In vigorous, fresh colloquial verse, he expanded the particulars of his youth in Maine in order to describe experiences that would be universal to Americans. Strange Holiness (1935) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1936; Saltwater Farm (1937) is a collection of poems about Maine.
Coffin also lectured widely and took part in numerous poetry workshops. He taught at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., (1921–34) and at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (1934–55); from 1937 to 1939 he was book and poetry editor for
Yankee. Coffin explored other modes of writing in such works as
Red Sky in the Morning (1935), a novel about the Maine coast;
Kennebec (1937), part of a historical series on American rivers; and
Maine Doings (1950), informal essays on New England life.
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