Available Light: Philip Booth and the Gift of Place

Castine, Maine, writes Jeanne Braham, is the place to both begin and to end an exploration of the life and work of the poet Philip Booth. Home to five generations of the Booth family, the coastal town was both working harbor and artists' retreat, and Booth belonged as much to the craggy localsdockworkers, boat builders, and fishermen who weathered its harsh wintersas to the literary luminaries who gathered there in summertime. His poems came to depend, in immediate and sensory ways, on the ...