Booker's point / Megan Grumbling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grumbling, Megan, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 23.

Number 23 in the Vassar Miller prize in poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maine--Poetry.

Maine.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 72 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2016]

Summary:

Bernard A. Booker, old Maine codger and unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, knew the right ways to dig an eight-foot hole, build a maple sugar house out of a water heater, and snatch good white granite from other people's back lots. The wry Yankee woodsman is the subject of Booker's Point, an oral history-inspired portrait-in-verse. Weaving storytelling, natural history, and the poetry of place, this collection evokes the sensibility of rural New England, meditations on home and elders, and, above all, the pleasures of a good story. Book jacket.

Contents:

Some kind of hunter

Tacks

Plucked

Making it home

Stone harvest

Measures

Going in

In stones

Birches

Enterprise

Rock maple sap

The fruit

Stuff

Taking stock

Lots

Immersion

Trout tenets

The bottom

License

Softwoods

Deeds

Water lines: reckoning

Progress

Good digging

By piece

Hemlock

Trouble

Development

Practical jokes

Water lines: now as then

Rope

Blueberrying

Beeches

Divergence

Line variations

Through North Berwick's cemetery

Rigging

Age of iron

After sap

Rock maples

True north

Operation culvert

Good ones

There from here

Moosemeat

Tamaracks

Raking near the Great Works

Never looked better

Booker's point.

Notes:

Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2015.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781574416343

1574416340

OCLC:

932109969

Publisher Number:

99967475691