Booker's Point: Volume 23

Bernard A. Booker, wry old Maine codger and unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, is the subject of Booker's Point, an oral history-inspired portrait in verse. Weaving storytelling, natural history, and the poetry of place, the collection evokes the sensibility of rural New England, meditations on home and elders, and above all, the pleasures of a good story.

About the author

Raised in Maine, MEGAN GRUMBLING lives by the sea in Portland. Her honors include the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Robert Frost Foundation Award, and Scotland's Hawthornden Fellowship; her poems have appeared in Poetry, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. She teaches at Southern Maine Community College and the University of New England.

Summary

Bernard A. Booker, wry old Maine codger and unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, is the subject of Booker's Point, an oral history-inspired portrait in verse. Weaving storytelling, natural history, and the poetry of place, the collection evokes the sensibility of rural New England, meditations on home and elders, and above all, the pleasures of a good story.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Grumbling
• Publisher: University Of North Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781574416343
• ISBN: 978-1-57441-634-3
• No. of pages: 84
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry; Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama