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The poet Philip Booth (1925 - 2007) was first published in book form by Viking's legendary editorial advisor Malcolm Cowley in 1950. His numerous books of poetry included Letters from a Distant Land, The Islanders, Weather and Edges, Margins, Available Light, Before Sleep, Relations, Selves, Pairs, and Lifelines- Selected Poems 1950 - 1999. Booth was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets.
Anyone who cares about poetry knows his work ... his allegiance to the real, his swerving toward the philosophical, his refusal to back away from the edge. . . . Booth's subtle, refined portraits somehow reveal the lives he enters without invading them .-- The New York Times Book Review
