Booker's Point (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry): Volume 23 - Softcover

Grumbling, Megan

 
9781574416343: Booker's Point (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry): Volume 23
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1574416340 ISBN 13: 9781574416343
Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Bernard A. Booker, wry old Maine codger andunofficial mayor of Ell Pond, is the subject ofBooker’s Point, an oral history-inspired portrait-inverse.Weaving storytelling, natural history, and thepoetry of place, the collection evokes the sensibilityof rural New England, meditations on home andelders, and above all, the pleasures of a good story.

From “Some Kind of Hunter”He coaxed a pregnant woman right acrossthe river, and it weren’t no easy bridge.A cousin of an in-law, broke as dirt,she come up visiting from Vermont too poorto buy a license. Booker paid it, seta rifle in her hands, and took her upto Perkinstown, the brook side, where they comeupon this bridge, just beams and cables, rough.Full six months big, a borrowed gun; to her,that span, it looked like one hell of a stunt

“Grumbling is subtle, conjures the natural worldrichly and convincingly, and her subject matter issurprising and intriguing. I also admire how shehandles meter. Nobody else that I know of is writinglike her.”―Morri Creech, judge and author of Sleepof Reason

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About the Author

Raised in Maine, Megan Grumbling lives by the seain Portland, USA. Her honors include the Poetry Foundation’sRuth Lilly Fellowship, the Robert Frost FoundationAward, and Scotland’s Hawthornden Fellowship. Sheteaches at Southern Maine Community College and theUniversity of New England.

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Publisher
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1574416340
ISBN 13 
9781574416343
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
84