Bob Brooks

 

 
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Poet Bob Brooks lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and Stockton Springs, Maine. 
 
After college (Harvard) and the army (as a translator) Mr. Brooks settled into a long-term job as editor at a computer systems company, which he left in the late eighties.

He started publishing in the late nineties, in such magazines as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Mudfish, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and many others; and in three chapbooks, Still in Here Someplace (2002) from Pudding House Publications, A Story Anyone Could Stick To (2008) from Finishing Line Press, and Three-season Views (2009), also from Finishing Line Press. 
 
His first full-length collection, Unguarded Crossing, has just appeared (winter 2011) from Antrim House Books. Go to their website and check the Catalog, or try this:
 

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bobbrx@gmail.com

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    OCTOBER
 
    No sooner
    does the last visitor
    desert the beach
 
    than raspberries, blackberries, and beach roses
    drop their disguises
    and show their teeth.
 
    From Unguarded Crossing