Collette Inez

Colette Inez was the author of ten books of poetry. Her earliest collection, The Woman Who Loved Worms (1972), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association National First Book Award and was reissued by Carnegie Mellon’s Classic Contemporary series in 1991. Other titles include Family Life (1988); Getting Under Way: New & Selected Poetry (1993); Clemency (1998); and Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore (2004). Recent collections include Horseplay (2011) and The Luba Poems (2014). She is the author of the memoir The Secret of M. Dulong (2005), as well as the libretto for Mira J. Spektor’s opera Mary Shelley (renamed Villa Diodati), which premiered in 2003. Inez’s song cycle Miz Inez Sez, composed by Pulitzer Prize winning David del Tredici, was produced as the album Secret Music (2002). The New Yorker described the work as “may be the best new-music album of the year.” (Source)