Selves: New Poems

by Philip Booth

Booth's eighth poetry collection, with its evocations of compassion, tenderness and invading darkness, implies that redemption will come only from having loved well and wisely. Publishers Weekly remarked, "Booth is a traveler keenly, almost mystically, aware that 'how you get there is where you'll arrive.' "

Paperback

First published March 6, 1990

About the author

Philip Booth is a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets and has been honored by Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. The poem "Crossing" appeared in his first book, Letter from a Distant Land. Of his inspiration for the poem, he says, "I grew up in White River Junction, Vermont, where the White River and the Connecticut River come together. Many, many trains come down the river valley, traveling from Montreal to Boston, on to New Haven and beyond. The real crossing of this poem, though, is in Brunswick, Maine."


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Reviews

[Steven Felicelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

my guilty pleasure in the pluralist present: old white males from New England - spare, homespun introspection


"the life we have left
to keep
swimming out into."



Booth solidified himself as one of my absolute favorite poets with this volume.