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Pemaquid and Other Poems
Steve Luttrell
A small collection of poems by Steve Luttrell, a fixture of Portland, Maine's literary life. Named for the Pemaquid peninsula, the book works the coastal New England ground Luttrell has returned to throughout his career — landscape, weather, and the quiet endurance of the natural world, rendered in a plainspoken, observational voice. This is a privately printed edition in a small run, the kind of intimate production that belongs to a living local poetry culture rather than the national trade. For readers drawn to place-rooted lyric and to the independent literary life of a particular city, it's a modest, genuine artifact.
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The author
Steve Luttrell is a Portland, Maine poet best known as the founder and publishing editor of The Café Review, the poetry-and-art quarterly he started in 1989 out of readings at Woodford's Café; he served as Portland's Poet Laureate beginning in 2009. He belongs to a living, local literary culture rather than the national prize circuit, and his poems return again and again to the New England coast.
The book
Pemaquid and Other Poems is one of Luttrell's several collections (others include Home Movies, Conditions, The Vagaries, and Plumb Line). This copy is a small, privately printed Portland edition — the intimate kind of production that suits a poet so rooted in his place.
How to read it
As coastal Maine lyric: attentive to landscape, weather, and the enduring power of nature, in the plainspoken mode Luttrell has cultivated across decades. Its interest is as much regional and personal as canonical.
For more context
The Café Review itself, Luttrell's larger gift to Maine letters; and his later collection Plumb Line.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Steve Luttrell
- Publisher
- Privately Printed (Portland, Maine)
- Year
- 2000
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Poetry
- Location
- Maine
Places
Privately printed, small run