Author : Katherine Towler
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Family & Relationships
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 103/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Penny Poet of Portsmouth by : Katherine Towler
Download or read book The Penny Poet of Portsmouth written by Katherine Towler. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.