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(1925-2007) Poet. Philip Booth was a poet who lived much of his life in New England, in Hanover, New Hampshire and Castine, Maine. Booth served in the United States Air Force during World War II. He was the author of 10 books of poetry and his work has been recognized by the American Academy of Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Full Name

Philip Booth

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


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OTHER

Booth received a master's degree from Columbia University.

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OTHER

Booth was a professor at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

1925

BIRTH

Philip Edmund Booth was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1925.

1957

LITWORK

Letter from a Distant Land
Viking.
ASIN: B000BYR9AE
Poetry collection.

1961

LITWORK

The Islanders
Viking Adult.
0-670-40221-4
Poetry collection.

1966

LITWORK

Weathers and Edges
Viking Adult
0-670-75509-5
Poetry collection.

1970

LITWORK

Margins
Viking Adult.
0-670-45623-3
Poetry collection.

1976

LITWORK

Available Light
Viking Adult
0-670-14310-3
Poetry collection.

1980

LITWORK

Before Sleep
Viking Adult.
0-670-15529-2
Poetry collection.

1986

LITWORK

Relations
Viking Penguin
0-140-58560-5
Poetry collection.

1990

LITWORK

Selves
Viking Penguin, New York
0-140-58646-6
Poetry collection.

1994

LITWORK

Pairs
Viking Pengqui, New York
0-140-58724-1
Poetry collection.

1996

LITWORK

Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
0-472-06586-6
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999
Viking Press
0-670-88287-9
Poetry collection.

2007

DEATH

Philip Booth died in Hanover, New Hampshire in 2007.

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