Spanning fifty years in the literary career of the great Yankee poet, a collection of poetry features both previously published poems and original works, including poems on nature, the sea, love, uncertainty, responsiblity, and New England. For many readers, the half-century of poetry collected here will recall Robert Frost--the lines are laconic, reflective, and often informed by Booth's New England background (in this case, Maine). Of course, Booth would not be so admirable if he simply waxed poetic about snow falling from the roof. What makes these poems remarkable is the way he calmly looks life--and death--in the eye and doesn't blink. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Booth's poems are lifelines in several senses of the word. They can be used to "keep contact," as Webster's has it, with someone in peril, and they are, no doubt, "regarded as indispensable for the maintaining or protection of life" by the poet. Lifelines are found on boats, and the nautical is everywhere present in Booth's work, most of which is set in Maine, where his family has lived for five generations. His stanzas rise and fall like waves, and his carefully chosen words generate multiple shades of meanings like ripples stirred by the dip of an oar. His poems embody a profoundly consistent sensibility and connection to place, recording nearly 50 years of frosty New England winters and quickened summers, of looking to the sky for guidance, and of intimacy with boats and tides. Booth's long poetic practice has imbued his gentle poems with grace, which takes on an even finer luster in his newest work. Donna Seaman Adding It Up After The Rebuilding After The Thresher Again, The Solstice Ageless Minutes Alba All Night The Wind Among Houses Aside From The Life Backcountry Before Sleep Beyond Equinox Building Her By Self-definition Calendar Calling Chances Chart 1203 Civilities Cleaning Out The Garage Coming To Crosstrees Dark The Dark Comes Down The Day The Tide Dayrise Deer Isle Denying The Day's Mile Directions Dragging A Dream Of Russia Dreamboat Dreamscape Durward: Setting His Trawl Eaton's Boatyard Entry Evening Fairy Tale Fallback Falling Apart Fire On The Island First Lesson First Night Flinching Fog Fog-talk Game Garden Gathering Greens Generation Given This Day, None Graffito Growing Up In Kankakee Half-life Hand Hard Country Heading Out His Nurse, At Bedside, Said What Is It? Hope Hot 5th Of July The House In The Trees How To See Deer Identification In This Gray Depression The Incredible Yachts The Islanders It Is Being Labrador River A Late Spring: Eastport Late Wakings Letter From A Distant Land Lichens Lifetimes Lines From An Orchard Once Surveyed By Thoreau Linesquall Lives Long Afternoons In Dakota Looking A Man In Maine The Man Who Lost His Wife Marches Mary's, After Dinner Narrow Road, Presidents' Day Natural History Navigation Nightsong No Matter How I Feel Noam Was In Intensive Care When He Came To Not To Tell Lies Nothing Answers To Nothing Is Given Nothing Is More Than Nothing Is Sure Of Whales And Men: 1864 An Old Airman Who Knows Who He Was Old Man Ord Kept Asking Ossipee: November Outlook Over Antarctica Pairs Passage Without Rites Places Without Names Poem For The Turn Of The Century Prepositions Presence Pride's Crossing Procession Provisions Public Broadcast Rates Reach Road: In Medias Res Recall Recallings Relations Requiescat: Western Union Rule One Saying It Sea-change; John Marin (1870-1953) The Second Noon Seeing Seventy Shag Sixty Sixty-three A Slow Breaker Small Town Species Stonington Storm In A Formal Garden Stove Strip Supposition With Qualification Syntax Table Talk About Walking Tenants' Harbor Terms Thanksgiving (1) Thanksgiving (2) These Men Thinking About Hannah Arendt This Day After Yesterday Thoreau Near Home Three Awakenings In New England: 3. Reawakening To Chekhov To Think The Tower Tree Nursery A Two Inch Wave The Valley Road Views Was A Man The Way Tide Comes Ways We Used To Say Nothing's Wear When The Nurse Finally Brought In His Bedpan Within Word Words For The Room Words Made From Letters Writing It Down The Young Zeros -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® The poet Philip Booth (1925 – 2007) was first published in book form by Viking’s legendary editorial advisor Malcolm Cowley in 1950. His numerous books of poetry included Letters from a Distant Land , The Islanders , Weather and Edges , Margins , Available Light , Before Sleep , Relations , Selves , Pairs , and Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950 – 1999 . Booth was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets. Used Book in Good Condition