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Philip Edmund Booth

フィリップ・エドマンド・ブース

Firippu Edomando Būsu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1925-10-08 （Hanover, New Hampshire, USA）
Died
2007-07-02 （Castine, Maine, USA） age 81
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Castine, Maine (family home for generations) → Hanover, New Hampshire (birthplace)

Career

Occupations
Poet, Educator, University professor
Active Years
1947-2007
Affiliations
Dartmouth College (instructor/professor), Bowdoin College (instructor), Wellesley College (instructor), Syracuse University (co-founder of Creative Writing program; professor)
Influenced By
Robert Frost
Influenced
Stephen Dunn (student)

Education

Dartmouth College
English
Degree: B.A.
Period: 1944–1947
Year of Graduation: 1947
Country: United States
Studied with Robert Frost
Columbia University
English
Degree: M.A.
Country: United States

Awards

Bess Hokin Prize
1955
Organization: Poetry Foundation / Poetry magazine
Result: 受賞
Lamont Poetry Prize
1956
Work: Letter from a Distant Land
Organization: Academy of American Poets
Result: 受賞
Saturday Review Poetry Award
1957
Organization: Saturday Review
Result: 受賞
Emily Clark Balch Prize
1964
Organization: Virginia Quarterly Review
Result: 受賞
Theodore Roethke Prize
1970
Organization: Poetry Northwest
Result: 受賞
Syracuse University Chancellor's Citation
1981
Organization: Syracuse University
Result: 授与
Fellowship, Academy of American Poets
1983
Category: フェローシップ
Organization: Academy of American Poets
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1958
Category: フェローシップ
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1964
Category: フェローシップ
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: 受賞
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
1968
Category: フェローシップ
Organization: Rockefeller Foundation
Result: 受賞
Maurice English Poetry Award
1987
Work: Relations
Organization: Maurice English Poetry Award
Result: 受賞
Selected for The Best American Poetry
1999
Work: Narrow Road: Presidents' Day (poem)
Organization: The Best American Poetry
Result: 選出
Poets' Prize
2001
Work: Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999
Organization: Poets' Prize
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Letter from a Distant Land

1957 Poetry (collection)

Early collection including sea- and sailing-themed poems that connect nature and personal experience.

seasailingnature
Adaptations
  • [Children's book (illustrated adaptation)] Crossing (illustrated) (2001)

The Islanders

1961 Poetry (collection)

Poems depicting New England islands and coastal life.

New Englandislandssea

Weathers and Edges

1966 Poetry (collection)

Collection focusing on natural boundaries and weather motifs.

weathernatural boundaries

Margins

1970 Poetry (collection)

Poems that observe relationships and the margins of life.

relationshipsmargins

Available Light

1976 Poetry (collection)

A collection interweaving personal memory and local landscapes.

memoryplace

Before Sleep

1980 Poetry (collection)

Notable for poems addressing aging and introspection.

agingintrospection

Relations

1986 Poetry (collection)

Collection themed on human relationships and interactions; recipient of the Maurice English Poetry Award.

human relationshipsinteraction

Selves

1990 Poetry (collection)

Explores self and other; inward-looking poems.

selfinteriority

Pairs

1994 Poetry (collection)

Contains poems attentive to contrasts and pairs; includes poems with public concerns.

contrastpublic concern

Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999

1999 Selected poems / Collected selections

A selection spanning five decades, collecting major and significant poems.

lifeplacetime

Bibliography

  • Letter from a Distant Land
  • The Islanders
  • Weathers and Edges
  • Margins
  • Available Light
  • Before Sleep
  • Relations
  • Selves
  • Pairs
  • Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999
  • Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen

Adaptations

  • Children's picture-book adaptation of the poem "Crossing" (illustrator: Bagram Ibatoulline)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
blend of traditional formal verse and free verseclear, restrained voiceemphasis on natural description and concrete imagery
Recurring Motifs
sea and sailingNew England landscapesmemory and agingplace and family inheritance

Legacy

Philip Booth is regarded as a poet who expressed personal experience through New England landscapes and the sea, and as an educator who mentored many writers. He is noted for a clear regional voice and received numerous awards and fellowships.

Academic Societies

  • Academy of American Poets

Archives

  • Syracuse University Archives

In Popular Culture

  • The poem "Crossing" was adapted into an illustrated children's book that received critical notice

Quotes

  • Whoever works a storm to windward, sails / in rain, or navigates in island fog... He knows the chart is not the sea.
    Source: Poem "Chart 1203", from Letter from a Distant Land (1957) (1957)

Trivia

  • Served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
  • Helped found the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University.
  • Family home in Castine, Maine, handed down for five generations.