Diary of the One Swelling Sea
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936657066 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 66 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Living on Orcas Island, Jill McCabe Johnson is a close neighbor to the sea. – Peggy Shumaker. In her briny poems, she takes us even closer--letting us read the sea's diary. In these elegant poems, forces huge as magma shove up and forces delicate as brittle stars taste changes in sea water. From sea ground to surface, we see the intimate, inside story. Marvelous. Careful observation, precise research, musical phrasing, and active imagining surge through these poems. What better metaphor for the vast mysterie
Beautiful underwater life personified Johnson presents lovely concise vignettes that constitute a book length poem on the internal life of the ocean. This swelling living being sees all, understands its inhabitants and their individual woes as though observing with a motherly, but distant eye. The leviathan that is the ocean is personified via unsentimental and detailed daily entries in a watery "diary." Be prepared to spend some time in the sympathetic and intelligent mind of the deep blue sea.