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.

• • Author: Jacob Riyeff
• • Publisher: Resource Publications
• • Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 74 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• • ISBN-10: 1532662459
• • ISBN-13: 9781532662454