
Available Light
Philip Booth and the Gift of Place
Jeanne Braham(Author)
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 27. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-0-87233-206-5 (ISBN)
Description
Philip Booth 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 his structure and language. Although his work received critical attention and several major awards, he did not enjoy the wide readership that many of his peers attracted. Available Light combines selected poems and personal photographs to paint a multidimensional portrait of Booth, and aims to ignite new interest in a poet who spent a "lifetime looking into how words see," writing incandescent poems in the process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87233-206-5 (9780872332065)
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Person
JEANNE BRAHAM his the author of five books on American arts and letters, including a collaboration with the artist and wood engraver, Barry Moser: The Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz. She has taught literature and creative writing at a number of colleges and universities, primarily at Allegheny College, but later Smith College, Hampshire College, the University of New Hampshire, and Clark University. She is the founding editor of Heatherstone Press, a fine arts publisher of poetry chapbooks, and lives in western Massachusetts.