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Signs, Translations
Poems by JOHN HILDEBIDLE

| Paperback | 127 x 203 mm | 92 pages | ISBN 978-1-903392-83-6 | October 2008

John Hildebidle studied at Harvard. He taught in a public secondary school for eight years, and then worked as a teacher/dean at Harvard. For nearly a quarter of a century, he has been a part of the English Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent a year on a Fulbright teaching at the University in Galway. His books include THE OLD CHORE (Alice James Books) and a prose collection entitled STUBBORNNESS: A FIELD GUIDE, which won the John Gardner prize from SUNY-Binghamton press. He lives near Boston and has the immense good fortune to be the father of two astounding children and the husband of an even more astounding wife.
Sample Poem

Particular Effects of Morning Light

Haze molds the streetscape,
leaving the familiar strangely
unrecognizable.
Brick never seemed so kind.
Neon, now, smiles affably.

Out on the turnpike, fog
descends, thick, unforgiving,
extreme. Eyes emerge
in place of tailights--the road
is a place of prowling beasts.

Then--gone. Clear sky, sun
on the rock of road-cuts, dyed
green, gold, grey: sandstone?
something with copper? Granite?
Why do we let the light so toy with the world?

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Sample Poem
Other Salmon books by John Hildebidle:
Defining Absence (Salmon Poetry, 1999)