Booker's Point: Volume 23

von Megan Grumbling

84 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• Reihe: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9781574416343
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2016
• Größe: 224 x 147 mm
• Verlag: University of North Texas Press