Metes and Bounds

Poetry September 2009 ISBN 978-0-9844118-5-6 Softcover, 5½" x 8½"

This chapbook was chosen by contest judge Dr. Richard Taylor as the winner of the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.

"Kates's brief lyrics, in taut lines that employ rhyme, often slant, are full of chainsaws, mauls, and the finished product . These are quintessentially New England poems to savor." - Maxine Kumin, Former U.S. Poet Laureate

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About the Author

J. Kates

J. Kates, an award-winning literary translator and the co-director of Zephyr Press, has been granted three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He has had published three chapbooks of his own poems (two of which are folded into Places of Permanent Shade) and one previous collection of poems, The Briar Patch (Hobblebush Books). He is also the translator of a dozen books of Russian and French poetry, has edited two anthologies of translations, and collaborated with Stephen A. Sadow on a half dozen books of Latin American and Peninsular Spanish poetry in translation.