An introduction to biology

Chute, Robert M.

Harper&Row

Uncle George: Poems from a Maine Boyhood

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cider Press

"Sweeping the Sky is one of the more unusual and intriguing chapbooks I've come across in Maine... Robert Chute's twenty-four poems pay tribute to a little-known historical subject: the female pilots who flew nighttime missions for the Soviet army during WWII....Concise and skillful, these poems are pulled off with surprising lightness of touch given their grim subject. Chute's poems make me want to look into their eyes-if I had the nerve." Haines Sprunt Tate, Maine Times, Sep. 21, 2000  About the Author: Robert M. Chute is a native of Naples, Maine and was educated, according to Chute, with varying degrees of success, at Fryeburg Academy, The University of Blaine, and The Johns Hopkins University. He served in the U.S. Air Force in WWII, in the Aviation Physiology Unit of a Proving Ground Command. Research in and Professing of Biology supported his poetry habit until retirement from Bates College in 1993. He received the Rhine Humanities Council chapbook award for Samuel Sewall Sails for Home and the Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Award for the poem, "Heat Were in Concord." Chute was awarded the 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

Sweeping the sky

The Cider Press

Beneath the "Gee-Wizz" aspects of science lie the disturbing concepts of chaos, chance, randomness, and the absence of purpose. This collection is an attempt to deal with, or at least circle around, these duel aspects of science. About the Poet: Robert Chute's poetry and collage poems have appeared in many journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, BOMB, The Cape Rock, Cafe Review, The Literary Review, and Texas Review. He received the Maine State Chapbook award for Samuel Sewall Sails For Home. Beloit Journal's Chad Walsh Award "Heat Wave In Concord." Other poetry books include Thirteen Moons in English, French, and Passamaquoddy (2002), and most recently, Bent Offerings, from Sheltering Pines Press (2003). Essays In All Directions, a chapbook of short poems is coming soon from Moon Pie Press. Born in Maine, Robert Chute attended Fryeburg Academy and U. Maine (BA Zoology, 1950). After studies at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Chute taught and conducted research at Middlebury College, San Fernando State, and Lincoln University (PA). He returned to Maine as Chair of Biology at Bates College. Now Prof. Emeritus of Biology at Bates College, Chute's scientific publications include papers in parasitology, hibernation physiology, general biology, environmental studies.

Reading Nature

Just Write Books

"Like most other excellent poets, Robert M. Chute deserves to be better known. It is therefore cheering to see his Uncle George, a book that refuses to go away, given a new incarnation. Here are immediately graspable, often uproarious poems full of the salt and tang of actual life: Maine as it used to be, and maybe persists in being." -X. J. KENNEDY, Lamont Poetry Award, 1961, Poetry Editor, Paris Review, 1961-64 "The best colloquial imagination is in Robert Chute's Uncle George poems which carry on for Edgar Lee-Masters. Read poems like "Summer School" and "Roofing the Shed." Real! Wonderful! Truly conveying the rural universality in the late 20th century." -LEO CONNELLAN, Author of Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country, Shelley Memorial Award winner "... his notes on the poems should be of particular interest to those writing poetry...The woodblock illustrations are especially fine. A pleasure to read." -GORDON CLARK, Maine Sunday Telegram

With Roadside Rest, Robert Chute returns to Wyman Falls. Readers of Coming Home and Return to Sender will recognize many of the characters and much of the landmarks in this mystery set in post Korean War rural Maine. Mystery unfolds as a fellow from West Virginia comes to town with a deed to property owned by Willis Wyman and James Johnson. The West Virginian goes missing. There are more questions than answers in an investigation that includes quirky town characters. Meanwhile Jim Johnson is missing in action from Korea. Enjoy this story as it takes you around the world and back to Maine with nonstop action revealed through Chutes' prose-that, like his poetry, is, "careful language, precise, with a sparse beauty." Nancy Grape of Maine Sunday Telegram said about Coming Home: A Maine Mystery, "All in all, Chute has created a fast moving story, Coming Home exudes a genuine sense of Maine's landscape and how that landscape works to shape its people...Don't look for movie-star characterization...They don't flourish among the granite rocks and sandy shores that nourish this suspenseful story... the genuine article-men and women strong at the core, steady as the wind blows and poised to protect and preserve their heritage...It is a lasting Maine story and Chute has told it well." About Return to Sender Bill Bushnell in the Kennebec Journal said, "Chute is a clever, thoughtful writer, creating a story true to the color and atmosphere of rural Maine during the Korean War era, right down to the 1950s-era social taboos of homosexuality and illicit drug use, and the loneliness of fathers away at war...Chute has a sure hit mystery here. About the author: Chute is a seventh generation Maine native. A retired professor of biology, most of his nonscientific writing has been poetic in nature. He is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Bates College and served as director of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area. He lives on Middle Range Pond in Poland, Maine.

Roadside Rest: Another Maine Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Sweeping the Sky

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