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A Walker in the City
by James Oliver
About the Writer
- Peter Anastas
- Peter Anastas was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1937 and attended local schools. He holds degrees in English from Bowdoin College and Tufts University. Among his publications are Glooskap's Children: Encounters with the Penobscot Indians of Maine (Beacon Press), Landscape with Boy, a novella in the Boston University Fiction Series, At the Cut, a memoir of growing up in Gloucester in the 1940s (Dogtown Books), Broken Trip, a novel of Gloucester in the 1990s (Glad Day Books), and No Fortunes, a novel set at Bowdoin in the 1950s (Back Shore Press), along with fiction and non-fiction in Niobe, The Falmouth Review, Stations, America One, The Larcom Review, Polis, Split Shift, Cafe Review, Sulfur, Art New England, Architecture Boston, and Process. Anastas is also the editor of Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1962-1969 (Ten Pound Island Books). In naming his blog A Walker in the City, the writer wishes to pay homage to Alfred Kazin's 1951 memoir of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1920s and 30s. Anastas has recently completed a sequel to his memoir At the Cut, to be called "From Gloucester Out."
1 comment:
Peter,
I enjoyed hearing what I already read in silence.
"We are the government," indeed!
Worked at Birdseye in the '70's for a year cutting blocks of fish the Russian factory ships made, & even worked the hold of a Japanese version of the same thing piling 77.5 lb boxes ten high on pallets a crane unloaded at the waterfront, the grand Mr. Patrican my foreman.
Also enjoyed hearing your take on all the angles involved creating the vortex of community struggle portrayed in the novel.
Thanks for sharing the event. -rg
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