One doesn't have to be a literary scholar to deeply admire and enjoy Wilda Morris's "Pequod Poems: Gamming with Moby Dick"-a brilliant compendium of literary insight, criticism, historical research, and especially her skillfully written poems. Among the many delights of the latter are reflections narrated by some of Melville's most unforgettable characters-Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, and Ahab himself, of course-as well as by members of Melville's...