Book description
Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.
Why read it?
1 author picked Harborless as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the poems in this book, which are all about shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. I was drawn in by the writing itself, which is specific and imagistic. The author does a really good job of imagining the lives of people who worked on these ships.
One of the things I remember most is the description of the various cargoes—peaches, Christmas trees, logs—not to mention the description of a boiler that explodes and crashes through the roof of a funeral home during a funeral. I never realized there were so many ships at the bottom of these lakes. Even…
From Lynn's list on Michigan’s wild and wonderful Upper Peninsula.
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