The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship

by Katherine Towler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619027127
• ISBN13: 9781619027121
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"