Swans Island Buoys and Other Lines


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In <i>Swans Island Buoys and Other Lines</i> an award-winning poet shares his compilation of poetry spanning forty years and providing a colorful glimpse into life on a small working island in Blue Hill Bay in the Downeast Maine coastal waters.Donald Junkins a former professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Director of the Master of Fine Arts program in English offers seventy-five poems presented in a lyrical resonant voice. Junkins includes original poetry and works previously published in such journals as <i>The New Yorker The Virginia Quarterly Review</i> and the two-volume anthology <i>Contemporary New England Poetry.</i> With a polished style Junkins illustrates daily life for the 350 year-round inhabitants who orchestrate their lives around the tides nightly winds lobstering fog and late summer rains.In a world where the natural ebb and flow of nature dictates everyday life Junkins offers an exquisite collection of poetry reminiscent of a time gone by.<center><i>On this late morning in late Junetwo yellow butterflies traverse the beach peaswhere the seawall begins.Mourning doves sound in the air.</i></center>
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