Quarry: The Collected Poems of Peter Kilgore

by Peter Kilgore

Quarry collects the poems of Peter Kilgore (1940-1992), a well-known figure in Portland, Maine’s literary underground in the 1970s and ’80s. His taut, crisply imagistic poetry of the Maine coast and wilderness areas appeared during his lifetime in many regional publications and in several books and chapbooks. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Peter Kilgore was a founder of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, a teacher, and a contributing editor for Contraband, one of Maine’s most influential small magazines. His poetry reflects a deep reverence for Maine’s natural world, his family, his hometown, and in particular his powerful relationship to the sea and Casco Bay.

312 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2019