Swans Island Buoys and Other Lines
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Red Point: On the Edge of Summer On this late morning in late June two yellow butterflies traverse the beach peas where the seawall begins. Mourning doves sound in the air. I can see Long Island Plantation, darker blue above the sun glare sea, behind the closer Sistar Island's darker green, beyond the tide rip glaze, that intermittent creamy mid-tide roil off Red Point's hogback shore. We have come again to our tidal cove of greens and blues. One poplar remains among our shoreline spruce; its leaves from my childhood story book flutter like coins. Our last son at home is in China, on his way to Shanxi to see the Buddhist shrines color the hills. here, a nearby birch divides like a tuning fork before me, beyond my reach, just out of play.
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In Swans Island Buoys and Other Lines, 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 The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and the two-volume anthology Contemporary New England Poetry. 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.
About the Author
Donald Junkins was a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he directed the Master of Fine Arts Program in English for ten years. He won three National Endowment for the Arts awards and a grand prize for poems published in the New Letters Journal.