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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.
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Katherine towler is author of the memoir the penny poet of portsmouth and the novels snow island, evening ferry, and island light. She is also co-editor with ilya kaminsky of the collection a god in the house: poets talk about faith. She has been awarded fellowships by the new hampshire state council on the arts and phillips exeter academy.
This week, the bookshelf features katherine towler, author of the new memoir, the penny poet of portsmouth. In the last decades of his life, poet robert dunn lived a simple life in the seacoast city.
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2 nov 2015 yehuda amichai, robert alter (translator), the poetry of yehuda katherine towler, the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place,.
The penny poet of portsmouth is a book that is written on many levels, making it difficult to categorize. “as a memoir, it is a book about my friendship with robert, but it’s not a biography.
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.
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The penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship.
About the penny poet n this memoir, katherine towler tells the story of her friendship with robert dunn, a brilliant poet who never owned a telephone, computer, television, or car and sold his handmade books of poems for a penny on the streets of portsmouth, new hampshire.
On april 18, katherine towler will read from her new memoir, the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship.
The class of 1945 library celebrates national poetry month with readings by sarah anderson, maggie dietz, and katherine towler; three women with connections to phillips exeter academy. The event will be held on tuesday april 19th at 7pm in the library’s rockefeller hall followed by a reception and book signing.
Portsmouth poet laureate program building community through poetry. The portsmouth poet laureate program is dedicated to building community through poetry by appointing and supporting an outstanding local poet as poet laureate for the city, sponsoring events that feature area poets and authors from outside the new hampshire seacoast, and encouraging a love of poetry among people of all ages.
The penny poet of portsmouth is not simply an amassed collection of anecdotes and stories about robert dunn as told by the author. Dunn is very much alive and speaking throughout the entire memoir in his own words via actual spoken dialogue between he and towler, between the quotation marks.
The penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship chronicles portsmouth, nh author katherine towler’s friendship with robert dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid living in downtown portsmouth. The book is also an elegy for a time and place—the new england seaport city of the early 1990s that.
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, renting a room in a house without owning a phone, car, computer, or television.
Book review: ‘penny poet’ the story of an unyielding artist and his changing city katherine towler's memoir centers on her friendship with poet robert dunn set against a backdrop of fast-evolving.
12 jan 2020 tagged as biblio-poetry therapy, portsmouth central library, aloud by the first student is an extract from a memoir written in the form of letters.
There is little about dunn’s life before 1991, when the author, katherine towler, first came to portsmouth, and although dunn was a familiar figure on the streets of portsmouth and had many friends, few were close and he kept much to himself.
Author katherine towler will read from and discuss her book, the penny poet of portsmouth, on monday at the portsmouth public library. The new memoirexplores the life of robert dunn, known as the penny poet of portsmouth for the little books of poems he sold on the street for a penny, who lived in portsmouth from the 1970s until his death in 2008.
The penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship (paperback) by katherine towler.
15 mar 2016 the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship ( hardcover) the late robert dunn was, as noted by a friend,.
The penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship; snow island; buy this book.
11 nov 2020 the penny poet of portsmouth a memoir of place solitude and youth poet laureate amanda gorman takes her place in the morgan.
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17 apr 2016 towler's new book, “the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship,” recounts her move to portsmouth, the evolution.
The penny poet of portsmouth a conversation with katherine towler 05/24/2016 01:50 pm et updated dec 06, 2017 katherine towler's memoir, the penny poet of portsmouth follows her move to portsmouth, along with a marriage and a settling down into the community she never quite expected.
The penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship by katherine towler one of my very favorite writers is seacoast writer katherine.
11 jun 2016 she co-edited a god in the house: poets talk about faith, this march, her first memoir, the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place,.
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 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.
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The penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship by katherine towler. What we’re reading: the underground railroad by colson whitehead.
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 penny poet of portsmouth: a conversation with katherine towler i did not seek out my role as a person robert relied on when he was sick.
Portsmouth was an interesting part of this book but the real story was the friendship between the author and robert dunn, the penny poet of portsmouth.
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In portsmouth, though, the author found inspiration for several novels and, now, a closely observed memoir of her ultimately inscrutable friendship with robert dunn, whose aspirations to be a “minor poet” were as intense as towler’s desire to become a major novelist.
Author of the memoir the penny poet of portsmouth (2016) and novels: co-editor with ilya kaminsky of the collection a god in the house: poets.
8 apr 2016 katherine towler is author of the memoir the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship (2016); the novels snow.
1 may 2016 portsmouth writer katherine towler was one of those lucky folks who purchased some of robert dunn's penny chapbooks.
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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, renting a room in a house without owning a phone, car, computer, or television.
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The penny poet is now in paperback! march 9, 2017 holbrook katherine towler’s excellent memoir, about living next door to the poet robert dunn, is now available in paperback.
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Towler's new book, the penny poet of portsmouth: a memoir of place, solitude, and friendship, recounts her move to portsmouth, the evolution of her friendship with dunn, and their relationship.
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