The Penny Poet of Portsmouth

A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Relationships, Friendship, Family Relationships, Death/Grief/Bereavement, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Katherine Towler ISBN: 9781619027619
Publisher: Counterpoint Press Publication: March 1, 2016
Imprint: Counterpoint Language: English
Author: Katherine Towler
ISBN: 9781619027619
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication: March 1, 2016
Imprint: Counterpoint
Language: English

“Lovely . . . more than an ode to a singular character . . . It’s also an evocation of place—a walkable city with stubborn, old-New England charm.” —The Boston Globe
 
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 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.
 
“Beautifully written, keenly observed, and conveys better than any book I’ve read the necessary and even urgent solitude of the writing life.” —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams

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“Lovely . . . more than an ode to a singular character . . . It’s also an evocation of place—a walkable city with stubborn, old-New England charm.” —The Boston Globe
 
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 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.
 
“Beautifully written, keenly observed, and conveys better than any book I’ve read the necessary and even urgent solitude of the writing life.” —Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams

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