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diminishmentmeaningful,to acceptance of the SableIsland that is our world in microcosm.Philip Booth’s islanders are all of themmen who sail offshore to discover whatthey hope to be,and who,finding them-selves,must acknowledge the humanlimits by which,if at all,they will ulti-mately survive.  \nAs Richard Eberhart said of Booth'sfirst book,these poems “are unusuallyconsistent,possessing innate integrity.”Louise Bogan wrote in The New Yorkerthat Booth “makes his connections be-tween imagination and reality so unpre-tentiously that they can be passed over,but they are there-in fresh diction andform.\"With even greater intensity,such\"fresh diction and form\"mark thepoems that make up The Islanders.  \n\n|  | ST.PETERSBURG JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARY  \u003Cbr>PS3503.0532 I8  \u003Cbr>Booth,Philip E.  \u003Cbr>000  \u003Cbr>The islanders.  \u003Cbr>35401002059631   |\n| --- | --- |\n\nPS  \n3503  \n.053217762I 8SPC图SURPLUS PROPERTY  \n# CLEARWATER CAMPUSSPJC\n\n# THE ISLANDERS\n\nLetter from a Distant Land  \n# The\n\nIslanders  \n3ARY  \n# CLEARWATER CAMPUSSPJC\n\n1961  \n# THE VIKING PRESS\n\nNew York  \nCopyright 1952,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961 by Philip BoothAll rights reserved  \nFirst published in 1961by The Viking Press,Inc.625 Madison Avenue,New York 22,N.Y.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canadaby The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card number:61-17222  \nPrinted in the U.S.A.by Vail-Ballou Press,Inc.  \nTHANKS  \nto the editors of the following magazines  \nAudienceChelsea  \nThe Chicago ReviewFuriosoHarper's  \nThe Hudson ReviewThe Kenyon ReviewThe London MagazineThe New YorkerThe Paris ReviewPoetry  \nSaturday Review  \nThe Virginia Quarterly ReviewVoices  \nin which poems contained in the present collection were first published  \nand to  \nThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation  \nwhich made possible  \nthe best part  \nof  \nthis 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