Portuguese Sailor Boy

by David Appelbaum

Poetry. PORTUGUESE SAILOR BOY is a fragmentary history of the bloodline of the Portuguese explorer, Vasco de Gamma. The bloodline motif plays out in a series of scenes of an unnamed contemporary relation--in symbolic forms like nautical maps and paint-by-numbers frigates. The narrative centers on the wayfaring of his character, which reveals a life of accidental achievement as well as unadvertised follies, and neither ascends nor descends to an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913606031
• ISBN13: 9781913606039
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"