Freeing the Hook: Poems - Softcover

Harris, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982810083 ISBN 13: 9780982810088

Publisher: Deerbrook Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Poetry. "'We've all showed up naked to the big exam,' says Peter Harris. 'Ignore that body near the door—it's only your failed plans. These are the sort of laughable/humorous, piercing honesties with which Harris breaks the ice, and persuades us that his speaker has sailed through his exams naked and stumbled over the bodies. Alternately bemused, furious, crestfallen, optimistic, despairing—these poems speak from the sweaty field of the human condition. FREEING THE HOOK takes you on a backstage tour of love, death, family and solitude. Their dark, inquisitive, tender humor is our immunization. Their stubborn compassion is our salvation."—Tony Hoagland

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About the Author

Peter Harris, born in 1947, has taught at Colby College since 1974. His chapbook, Blue Hallelujahs, won the Maine chapbook competition in 1996. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, and Green Mountains Review, among other places. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Arts, Red Cinder House, and the Tyron Guthrie Center in Ireland, and has been awarded a Martin Dibner Writing Fellowship. Among other things, he's worked as a doodlebugger in an oil search crew for Citgo, a line worker in an artificial Christmas tree filament factory, a cabin boy on a yacht, crew on a shrimp boat in Honduras, a kitchen worker and pot washer, and an assembler in a fancy box factory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Deerbrook Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0982810083
• ISBN 13: 9780982810088
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 85