The Land Before Us, Poems of the Sea

By Emmet Van Driesche

Poetry. The striking poems from THE LAND BEFORE US have grown out of the author's experience living aboard two different ships. "I should have bargained more, / held the line / but I just wanted a straw hat / and don't like to haggle." / Still, this morning / patching a sail / under the hard sun of Baja, / you were worth every peso. / I keep a sail needle / stuck raggedly through your brim; / soon you will be the battered, / worn hat of my imagining"-from THE LAND BEFORE US.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938566954
• ISBN13: 9780938566953
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Adastra Press
• Length: 35 Pages