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 Philip Booth [Booth’s Poems]
1925 ~
poet and academician
Philip Booth was born in Hanover,
New Hampshire in 1925. He currently lives
in Maine where he spent much of
his childhood. The landscape of New England,
particularly the coast of Maine,
often occupies a place of primary importance in Booth's poems—serving
as a metaphor for the poet's emotional or psychological state.
After returning from Air Force service in World War II,
Booth studied with Robert
Frost as a freshman at Dartmouth
College and, upon obtaining his
M.A. in English from Columbia University,
returned to Dartmouth to teach
English. After a year at Dartmouth,
Booth left his hometown to join the faculty at Wellesley
College and, eventually, left New
England for Syracuse University,
where he was one of the founders of the graduate program in creative writing.
He has published numerous books of poetry – Lifelines:
Selected Poems, 1950-1999 (Viking Press, 1999) and Pairs (1994), to name a
few – and has been honored by Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment
for the Arts fellowships. His first book, Letters from a Distant
Land (1957), was awarded the
Lamont Poetry Selection in 1956. In 1983, he was elected as Fellow of The
Academy of American Poets.
Source:
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=178
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