The Wine-Dark Sea

by Mathias Svalina

Poetry. In a clear-cut voice "as simple as ink," Mathias Svalina's THE WINE-DARK SEA vocalizes the urge to write oneself alive. Through this lyric journal of taut poems, each titled The Wine-Dark Sea, Svalina breathes life into overlooked places: the driveway a car turns into at the end of a workday, how a tree holds the dirt, the edge of a page on which "I'd always assumed / I'd die alone." Every poem is a baffled drop, a pulse trying not to be dead,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940090059
• ISBN13: 9781940090054
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Sidebrow Books
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.0"