Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars. Nature show, 3 a.m. -- A brief history of the whale fishery -- Mirror -- Canticle in the fish's belly -- Aquarius -- Queenstown -- Her stillness -- Theory of desire: the Essex -- Mistranslation of a fragment by da Vinci -- Serpentinite, Jasper, and Clay -- Plath's cakes -- Rogue wave -- "Drowning doesn't look like drowning" -- Erosion [Eros] -- At the cutting-in -- Theory of desire: the wrecks -- Heartbeat -- Ultrasound -- A gift cannot be refused -- Susan Barnard Gardner, b. 1826, New Bedford -- Tide book -- Double aquarius -- Constellation -- A prow, a view -- Whale study -- Cathedral -- Boy in bluebird pajama's -- The unmaking -- Labyrinth -- Notes on 'nature show, 3 a.m." -- The sisters -- Astronomer -- Theory of desire: the animal -- In the week that my grandmother stopped eating -- Vigil -- Still -- Fog, land's end -- Transmission -- Port -- I and thou -- Seaside -- Anemones -- Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars.
Summary:
"Immaculately yet organically structured, Rachel Richardson's 'Hundred-Year Wave' dives and sails and swims from the cosmic to the personal, accounting for the epical, sublime and tragic, and the lyrical, hymnal and elegiac. The sea is the book's domain and the source of energy, its grief and soalce; and in wave after wave of remarkable poetry bearing wit and grit and tenderness, it heralds the arrival of a poet of great poise and prodigious lyrical gifts." --Khaled Mattawa.
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