Night Watch on the Chesapeake - (Pitt Poetry) by Peter Meinke (Paperback)

About the Book

Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke's third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself.

Book Synopsis

Night Watch on the Chesapeake is Peter Meinke's third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself.

Review Quotes

If you are one of the millions who is bored, perplexed or overawed by contemporary poetry, do the muse, and yourself, a favor: buy and read Peter Meinke's new book, Night Watch on the Chesapeake.-- "St. Petersburg Times"

Meinke is a poet for the real. . . . He writes with an eye cocked for the tangible and the meaningful. He eschews mesmerizing his readers, choosing instead a realism that communicates well.-- "Christianity and Literature"

Meinke is a skilled craftsman. He is especially adept at building to a strong ending or the ending that shies the poem into an unexpected, but perfect place. He also has the most endearing kind of humor, the ability to laugh at himself.-- "Judith Hemschemeyer"

About the Author

Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He has been a professor of literature and creative writing at Eckerd College and has served as writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, including University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Hawaii. Meinke has published seven prior books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, and Liquid Paper. He is also the author of six poetry chapbooks and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships.