The Penny Poet of Portsmouth A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship |
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| Author:
| Towler, Katherine |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61902-910-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author's friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is as well an elegy for a time and place--the New England seaport city of the early 1990s that has been lost to development and gentrification, capturing the life Robert was able to make in a place rougher around the edges than it is today. It is a meditation on what writing asks of those...
More Description The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author's friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is as well an elegy for a time and place--the New England seaport city of the early 1990s that has been lost to development and gentrification, capturing the life Robert was able to make in a place rougher around the edges than it is today. It is a meditation on what writing asks of those who practice it and on the nature of solitude in a culture filled with noise and clutter.