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Available Light: Philip Booth and the Gift of Place

By Jeanne Braham

Available Light: Philip Booth and the Gift of Place
  • Publisher: Bauhan Publishing
  • Available in: Paperback
  • ISBN: 978-0-87233-206-5
  • Published: December 1, 2015
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Philip Booth, an instructor in English at Bowdoin from 1949-50, “published ten volumes of meticulously crafted lyric poems in his lifetime, most of them set in and inscribed by the landscapes and cadences of Down East Maine. Like other major poets writing from New England who were his contemporaries, the echoes of Robert Frost register in Booth’s structure and language. Booth knew Frost personally and if his mentor’s poetic example shaped Booth’s art, Castine, Maine, home of Booth’s maternal ancestors for five generations, provided ‘the gift of place’: the historic, geographic, and experiential canvas on which to paint his poems. This biography aims to ignite new interest in a poet who spent a ‘lifetime looking into how words see.’” From the Publisher. 

 

 


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