From the Box Marked Some Are Missing (Hobblebush Granite State Poetry, 1)

Poetry. Hobblebush Books is very proud to begin its Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series with a book by Charles Pratt. As X.J. Kennedy says, "For decades now, Charles Pratt has been quietly placing his distinctive poems in leading journals. Now at last the size of his achievement is made visible." FROM THE BOX MARKED SOME ARE MISSING includes selected poems from three of Pratt's earlier books, along with a generous number of poems that have not appeared in book form before. The whole of Pratt's long and distinguished writing career is represented.

Charles W. Pratt taught English for more than 25 years, mostly at Phillips Exeter Academy, before he and his wife Joan bought a small apple orchard in Brentwood, New Hampshire, and became apple-growers. Out of this life came the focal poems of two previous books: In The Orchard and Still Here. Many of these are collected in FROM THE BOX MARKED SOME ARE MISSING, along with poems previously unpublished in book form.