Sum of Every Lost Ship : poems

This debut collection of poems is both fascinated with and distracted by our impending endings and leave-takings, the loneliness of animals, and how the histories of things eat. These poems populate empty parking lots and seaside pawnshops and depart from a port at Deadhorse, Alaska. A narwhal gives cryptic advice to those requiring guidance on eulogies and extracting minerals from ghosts. Allison Titus presents us with quiet meditations on how absence often remains fixed as longing, a red thread knotted at the wrist.

• Author
• Allison Titus

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 80

• Publisher
• Cleveland State University Poetry Center

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781880834886

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2009