Philip Edmund Booth (October 8, 1925 – July 2, 2007) was an American poet and educator; he has been called "Maine's clearest poetic voice.
Booth served in the United States Air Force in the Second World War.
[2] He spent much of his time living in Castine, Maine in a house that has been handed down through his family for five generations.
One of his students, the poet Stephen Dunn, has written of his 1969-70 experience at Syracuse that, "We had come to study with Philip Booth, Donald Justice, W.D.
One of Booth's early poems, "Chart 1203," is indicative of the physical character of some of his poetry and also of his lifelong love of the sea and sailing:[6] A much later poem, "Places without Names," has a more public concern:[7] A major essay regarding Booth's poetry was published by Guy Rotella in 1983.
[8] An illustrated children's book built on Booth's poem "Crossing" from Letter from a Distant Land was published in 2001.