My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems

by Michael Burkard

Poems organized in the form of a notebook trace the author's development and evoke his memories, dreams, and experiences

Genres: Poetry

85 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

He graduated from Hobart College and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1973. He taught at Kirkland College (1975–78) and Sarah Lawrence College (1983–84, 1986–87), and has taught in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University since 1997. He has been a visiting writer at New York University (1991) and the University of Louisville (1992, 1996), as well as a writer-in-residence at Austin Peay State University (1990). During the 1990s he has also worked as an alcoholism counselor, particularly with children whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,The Paris Review, Ploughshares, APR, Ironwood, and Quarterly West.

Reviews

[katy · Rating 2 out of 5]

~2.5 stars. not really for me, but i respect the project. i’m just not really a lyric essay/prose poem kind of girl i think…. i preferred the more compact, standard poems in here. maybe i’m just more conservative than i thought with poetry lol.

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe the finest prose poems since Baudlaire. They're that good.