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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

‘A moment after death when the face is beautiful’: rare Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor

A black-and-white photo of a middle-aged white man with round glasses wearing a suiting and holding a pencil in his mouth, looking dourly at the camera.
Mystery novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler in a 1946 file photo. Photograph: AP

A newly uncovered poem by Raymond Chandler is shedding light on what is believed to be the only attempt by the famed British-American crime novelist at writing poetry as an adult.

Published on Monday in the 25th-anniversary issue of the Strand magazine, the poem, titled Requiem, dates back to 1955 and was discovered by the magazine’s managing editor, Andrew Gulli.

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