Sunk in Your Shipwreck: A Palmer Stammering

Sunk in Your Shipwreck is a collection of poems that employs the trope of the pilgrimage to structure its meanderings especially (in murky and unfaithful ways) echoing the great medieval English poem Piers Plowman. Moving through a poem from beginning to end is itself a kind of pilgrimage in the mind and on the tongue. The poems here reflect a late modern palmering a movement from place to place and time to time and back again movement through language and silence inner and outer states contemplative and active starting and stopping a longing for a constant or a destination in a life of uncertain circumstances and goals. In this verse peregrination the palmer seeks out an illuminating and sustaining vision to form and transform common surroundings and moments of human life a pursuit that is hopeful and darkly radiant by turns.