Lines to an Old Apple Tree: A Collection of Verse

Faust, Luke

ISBN 10: 0961978406 / ISBN 13: 9780961978402

Published by Township Pub, 1988

About this Item

Richmond, 1988; signed by author; green cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edges; illustrated jacket with top edge wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 64 pages.

Seller Inventory # JK0535

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lines to an Old Apple Tree: A Collection of Verse
• Publisher: Township Pub
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961978406
• ISBN 13: 9780961978402
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 10 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

The 50-odd poems in Lines to an Old Apple Tree are gleanings from verse Luke Faust has been writing since boyhood. They not only are about apple trees and inchworms, but going to work and to church, looking at an empty glass, hoeing carrots, following the sea, and doing the laundry. Some rhyme, some don't; there are several sonnets, and a couple of "tanka." Some are only one line long. "It has to be truer than anything, or it isn't poetry; and not waste a word." There are one or two tugs at the heartstrings in this little volume which conceivably might be used as an outside reference in creative writing studies. With fresh analyses of Coleridge, Hopkins, Conrad, Japanese verse; one way to make your own poetry

About the Author

Luke Faust has written for various newspapers; and for school, army, and other publications. He had short stories in The Atlantic, Redbook, Collier's Rex Stout's Mystery Monthly. He was a Methodist minister's son, who read Moby Dick at 15, went to sea, rode the freight trains, and began horseback riding at 73."I get along well with horses, having been taught some manners early by two brothers and three sisters." Lines to an Old Appple Tree is his first book of verse.