Night Watch on the Chesapeake
ISBN: 9780822991731
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Pittsburgh Press
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Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke's third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself.

Peter Meinke is emeritus professor of creative writing at Eckerd College. He has published numerous books of poetry, including Scars , Zinc Fingers , Liquid Paper , and The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems . Meinke is the recipient of many awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships. In 2009 he was appointed the first Poet Laureate of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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