Whale Fall & Black Sage: Poems of the Journey

by Ruth Thompson

Book Overview

At the beginning of Whale Fall & Black Sage, "three strange angels" command the poet: Go down./ Now you must love that too. She descends into the darkness of whale fall, with its strange creatures both real and imaginary, its song of death and rebirth. Returning to the upper world, her journey becomes more difficult, increasingly revelatory, ultimately transformative.The book ends with a joyous, fully embodied Whitmanesque crow. In Whale Fall &...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732952108
• ISBN13: 9781732952102
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Saddle Road Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"