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Booth, Philip, 1925-2007.

Lifelines : selected poems, 1950-1999 / Philip Booth.

New York : Viking, 1999.

x, 291 pages ; 23 cm

Spanning fifty years in the literary career of the Yankee poet, a collection of poetry features both previously published poems and original works, including poems on nature, the sea, love, uncertainty, responsibility, and New England.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Nightsong -- First Lesson -- Shag -- Chart 1203 -- Storm in a Formal Garden -- Letter from a Distant Land -- The Second Noon -- Was a Man -- These Men -- The Tower -- Sea-Change -- The Islanders -- The Day the Tide -- Fairy Tale -- Cleaning Out the Garage -- Denying the Day's Mile -- After the Thresher -- Deer Isle -- Tenants' Harbor -- Crosstrees -- To Chekhov -- Lines from an Orchard Once Surveyed by Thoreau -- Supposition with Qualification -- Thanksgiving -- Hard Country -- Labrador River -- Entry -- Stove -- A late Spring: Eastport -- The Way Tide Comes -- Adding It Up -- Wear -- Dreamscape -- A Dream of Russia -- How to See Deer -- The Incredible Yachts -- Prides Crossing -- It Is Being -- Ways -- Word -- Natural History -- Graffito -- Strip -- Lives -- Not to Tell Lies -- Aside from the life -- Words for the Room -- In this gray depression -- Falling Apart -- Flinching -- Noam was in intensive care -- Of Whales and Men: 1864 -- A Slow Breaker -- Recall -- His nurse, at bedside -- Fog.

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