The Old Chore
John Hildebidle
Co-winner of 1982 Poetry Center Book Award
"The poems of this book rush off the page and become alterations to our landscape...In the best sense this is poetry we can use." "Hildebidle's words and internal lyrics have a gentle, if sad, musicality akin to the photographer's art—a freeze frame on time." "Hildebidle's poetry has the unforced elegance that comes from a mind in turn with itself, that thrills to the world beyond itself, and seeks ways to touch
other minds, other lives." John Hildebidle has spent nearly thirty years teaching, first in a public junior high school, then at Harvard, and now at MIT. During the 1994-5 academic year, he was attached to the English Department of University College, Galway, Ireland, on a Fulbright scholarship. He lives in Cambridge MA, and writes fiction, essays, and poetry. His other books include Stubbornness: A Field Guide (SUNY Binghamton), and One Sleep, One Waking (Wyndham Hall Press).
—Dark Horse
—Karla Hammond
—Adrian Oktenberg
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