Houses - Barkin, Don
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New and Selected poems by Don Barkin, a poet whose last collection was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards. These poems are both domestic and accessible, including many in rhyme and meter (the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine wrote that Barkin's poems show "wonderful skill"). These poems, written over a quarter century, have appeared in some of the country's most prestigious literary magazines, including Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. They look back to a New Hampshire boyhood, and accompany the poet through two marriages, a…mehr

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New and Selected poems by Don Barkin, a poet whose last collection was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards. These poems are both domestic and accessible, including many in rhyme and meter (the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine wrote that Barkin's poems show "wonderful skill"). These poems, written over a quarter century, have appeared in some of the country's most prestigious literary magazines, including Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. They look back to a New Hampshire boyhood, and accompany the poet through two marriages, a successful teaching career, fatherhood, and a return to the woods in Massachusetts' Berkshire hills. A stint as a newspaper reporter gave birth to a collection of portraits, gathered here under the title, "Some People." Many of these poems live on the edge - between wilderness and civilization, between solitude and family life. They recall W.B. Yeats' remark, "Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry." These are crafted poems, and over the years, the author has passed on that craft in popular writing courses at Yale and Wesleyan universities. A section of newer poems occupy new territory and are philosophical in nature.
Autorenporträt
Don Barkin has published poems in Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, the North American Review, Harvard Magazine, The Louisville Review, Commonweal, and other journals. A full-length collection of his poems, That Dark Lake, published by Antrim House in 2009, was a finalist for the Connecticut Center for the Book's Poetry Book of the Year award. Houses, New and Selected Poems, was published by Antrim House in 2017. Two chapbooks, The Caretakers and The Persistent, were published by Finishing Line Press. He has twice been awarded artist grants by the State of Connecticut. He is a former newspaper reporter and was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He has taught writing at Yale, Wesleyan, and Connecticut College. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife, Maggie, and his daughter, Eve.