Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afrequent criticism of Mr. Coffin's poetry is that it is too narrow in scope. His treatment of Maine people, Maine customs, landscapes, and feelings, is acknowledged to be of a particularly perceptive and persuasive type, but beyond Maine and a few scattered corners of New England, Mr. Coffin's ability as a poet does not exist. It is said that he is a "regionalist," and that his poems can be understood in their full implications only by the elect versed in the ways of those exceptional anthropoids who carry on their own quaint, inbred existence north of Portland...
...preface to his "Collected Poems," Mr. Coffin attempts to state his position in the field of poetic endeavor, by way of answering the assertion that he is a provincialist whose colloquialisms are mere gibberish to outsiders. He admits that his primary subject material consists of Maine people, and that the inspiration for his work lies within the area of a particular region. But this does not mean that his poetry is significant with regard to only State-of-Mainers. From the everyday existences, the "Monday and Tuesday" lives, of these people, Coffin declares that he can create a mosaic...
...Perth Amboy, N. J., John Czerwiec, 67, took a last look into the coffin where his dead wife lay, collapsed and died...
...covered from head to foot with gold ornaments. On its face was a gold mask in the shape of a hawk's head. Two badly decomposed skeletons nearby, one wearing a carnelian necklace, were presumed to be those of servants. The mummy itself reposed in a silver coffin, the first ever found in the burial chambers of the Pharaohs. In ancient Egypt silver was called "white gold," and, because it was rarer there than real gold, was held more precious...
...mummy was that of this king, who had the mild distinction of being one of the several hundred fathers-in-law of King Solomon. Later, however, they decided that the mummy's real name was "Sheshonk," because this name was found on the ornaments in the silver coffin. In the presence of Egypt's young King Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads) were opened. Each of these contained a silver box shaped like the mummy and bearing the name...