On Blue Note - Hardcover

Corbett, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0944072062 ISBN 13: 9780944072066

Publisher: Zoland Books, 1989

Corbett, William. On Blue Note. First Edition. Cambridge, Zoland Books, 1989. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. IX, 81 pages and one audio-cassette. Original hardcover in original slip-case. Near Fine. Very minor signs of wear to the slip-case. Book and cassette cover in near new condition. Signed and inscribed on separate dates by the author. Includes for example the following poems: Crossing the Footbridge over Storrow Driv / Newbury Street / Back Bay / Wellfleet Ponds / Within Memory / Passed On / Donald's Ghost / Biking Down Massachusetts Avenue / Fred Astaire / A Palmpsest / Philip Guston 1913 - 1980 / Herb Garden / Going to Jim Thorpe / Little Brocker Grows Up etc. Poet, editor, and essayist William Corbett was raised in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, where he attended the Wooster School. He earned a BA from Lafayette College and moved to Boston's South End, with his wife the psychologist Beverly Mitchell, in the late 1960s. A friendship with the painter Philip Guston inspired Corbett to devote himself to writing. Until 2012, when they moved to Brooklyn, the Corbett's house was the de facto literary salon for artists, poets, and writers living in or visiting Boston. Associated with many of mid-century America's avant-garde poetry movements, including the New York School and Black Mountain, Corbett was a vital lifeline for the Boston literary scene for decades, introducing people and ideas that otherwise might not have filtered through the city. As Kevin Gallagher noted in a review of Corbett's All Prose (2001), "Corbett is ambassador to a strange land." Corbett's own poetry is influenced by the history and geography of New England, his personal friendships with poets and artists, visual art, and daily experience. Corbett has described himself as "a poet of landscape, weather and consciousness." His collections of poetry include Elegies for Michael Gizzi (2012), The Whalen Poem (2011), Opening Day (2008), Boston Vermont..

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