About the Author

JEANNE BRAHAM his the author of five books on American arts and letters, including a collaboration with the artist and wood engraver, Barry Moser: The Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz. She has taught literature and creative writing at a number of colleges and universities, primarily at Allegheny College, but later Smith College, Hampshire College, the University of New Hampshire, and Clark University. She is the founding editor of Heatherstone Press, a fine arts publisher of poetry chapbooks, and lives in western Massachusetts.

Reviews

Good typography is never seen. To serve its text the type has to get out of the way. A good biographer needs to do the same--get out of the way of the story. Jeanne Braham is a master of getting out of the way. Her biography of Philip Booth works like Booth's poetry: beautifully written, layered, understated, and truthful.--Barry Moser, master engraver, printer, and illustrator / designer of over 350 books, teaches at Smith College. His latest book, a memoir, is titled We Were Brothers.

Jeanne Braham's wonderful biography of Philip Booth captures him, his life in Maine, and his work, beautifully. In doing so, she brings renewed attention to a uniquely gifted poet who never sought attention but whose exquisitely crafted work deserves it.--Henry L. Miller, chief operating officer of Goodman Media International, and friend of Philip Booth for more than forty years

"In her superb literary biography, Jeanne Braham, with clarity and researched insight, explores Booth's inner and outer places and, in the process, certifies his true, lasting place in twentieth-century American poetry. I am as grateful to her for the care she has taken in rendering this poet's life as I am for the opportunity she provides to live again in Booth's most memorable poems.--Gary Margolis, Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Raking the Winter Leaves: New and Selected Poems