Seafarer: New Poems with Earthling and Forever in Bloomington, MN

The final collection of new poems from acclaimed poet James Longenbach, together with two previous volumes that confront mortality.
Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity.
Seafarer
opens with a gorgeous sequence in which the poet looks down on his life from above, as if he’s already left it behind. With prophetic perception, Longenbach reflects on the encroaching tide of mortality through myth and memory. This volume unites
with
Forever
(2021) and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Earthling
(2017); the three works have a powerful symmetry in their recognition of the ordinary, extraordinary, and precarious experiences of love and loss.