The Changing Tides of Maine brings together for the first time the evocative original poetry of author and educator Polly Welts Kaufman. These accessible writings have emerged out of her observations of the natural rhythms of the oceanic environment during periods of rest from her life in academia. With family roots in the northernmost part of the state, Kaufman spent childhood summers during the 1930s on Haskell Island in Casco Bay,...