Henry Braun

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[Braun’s] sensibility is a remarkable alert one. I find myself reading poems again and again as they keep coming to life in new ways.”
— Baron Wormser, former Maine Poet Laureate

Henry Braun (1930–2014) was born in Olean, New York and grew up in Buffalo. After graduating from Brandeis University, where he studied with Claude Vigee and J.V. Cunningham, he spent a year in France on a Fulbright, and then went to Boston University, where he participated in Robert Lowell's workshop. In the 1960s he organized poetry read-ins against the war in Vietnam and was convicted in a Federal court of tax evasion. His war tax dollars were donated to a veterans hospital and to public schools in Philadelphia. As an organizer of a draft card turn-in at the Justice Department he was an unindicted co-conspirator at the Boston 5 trial.

In 1968, Braun’s first book of poems, The Vergil Woods, was published by Atheneum. His work appeared in many magazines, including PoetryThe NationThe Massachusetts ReviewAmerican Poetry ReviewPrairie Schooner, and The Colorado Review, and in several anthologies. Loyalty: New and Selected Poems was the first offering of Grid Books, then known as Off the Grid Press.


The poems are strong, impressive, learned without needing to be scholarly; loving and often surprising in the way they pull a conclusion out of darkness.”
— Nathaniel Tarn
Poetry too good to be gulped, it is to be relished, to be read slowly and many times. I am so happy to own this beautiful collection!
— Kate Barnes, former Maine Poet Laureate

Loyalty

Poems by Henry Braun

Henry Braun’s final collection is a vibrant tribute to a life of quietude, simple beauties, and convictions that cut to the bone. All of which become poetry in Braun’s masterful hands.

winner of the 2008

Maine Award for Poetry

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