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The Golden Rule Collected Poems

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Description for The Golden Rule Collected Poems Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .

Every now and then -- but rarely -- there emerges a poet so startlingly original and unlike any other that they seem to have evolved in isolation on some island of their own, far from the literary mainland. Ernest Noyes Brookings is one such poet. Brookings is the ultimate late starter: never having written poetry before, he began in his eighties to produce verses on a daily basis, with a quiet intensity and single-mindedness, while resident at a nursing home in Massachusetts. In the seven years until his death in 1987, he produced around 300 poems on subjects such as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boatwhistle Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Teddington, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911052005
SKU
V9781911052005
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About Ernestnoy Brookings
Ernest Noyes Brookings was born in 1898 in Massachusetts. He served in the navy, attended MIT, and settled in Springfield, Vermont, where he worked as a designer of machine parts. He began writing poems in 1980, when he was a resident at the Duplex Nursing Home in Boston. He died in 1987.

Reviews for The Golden Rule Collected Poems
"His influence is and will continue to be far-reaching"
Michael Stipe

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