My Brother Goes Down to the Sea

<p><em>My Brother Goes Down to the Sea</em> is John Gribble's second full-length collection. The poems explore various bodies of water - ranging in size from from ponds in public parks to the Pacific Ocean - along with family lives and stories relationships elegiac memories works of art and music and sharp-eyed observations of everyday Tokyo..</p><p> </p><p>The book also explores forms from various traditions including the ghazal from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent Japanese haibun haiku and senryu as well as the <em>soneto</em> a new fourteen-line form based on traditional Japanese forms.</p>