Louis Simpson

Louis Simpson

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) was a Jamaican poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road.

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    On the lawn at the villa—
    That’s the way to start, eh, reader?
    We know where we stand—somewhere expensive—
    Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    And the angel in the gate, the flowering plum,
    Dances like Italy, imagining red.
    Louis Simpson (b. 1923)