Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999 [Paperback]

With an economy of line and focus on nature that has deep roots in the New England traditions of Thoreau and Robert Frost, Philip Booth writes poetry that evokes crystalline images of sea, woods, and fields and explores the timeless themes of love, uncertainty, and responsibility. With many of Booth's early works now out of print, Lifelines presents a unique opportunity to become reacquainted with one of the major voices in contemporary American poetry.LifelinesI. from Letter From A Distant Land
Nightsong
First Lesson
Shag
Chart 1203
Storm in a Formal Garden
Letter from a Distant Land

II. from The Islanders
The Second Noon
Was a Man
These Men
The Tower
Sea-Change
The Islanders

III. from Weathers And Edges
The Day of the Tide
Fairy Tale
Cleaning Out the Garage
Denying the Day's Mile
After the Thresher
Deer Isle
Tenants' Harbor

IV. from Margins
Crosstrees
To Chekhov
Lines from an Orchard Once Surveyed by Thoreau
Supposition with Qualification
Thanksgiving
Hard Country
Labrador River

V. from Available Light
Entry
Stove
A Late Spring: Eastport
The Way Tide Comes
Adding It Up
Wear
Dreamscape
A Dream of Russia
How to See Deer
The Incredible Yachts
Prides Crosssing
It Is Being
Ways
Word
Natural History
Graffito
Strip
Lives
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