POSTCARD FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA A chapbook by Judith Barrington Published by The Eighth Mountain Press ISBN 978-0-933377-53-0, paperback $10 FINALIST, OREGON BOOK AWARD

In these poems Judith Barrington draws on her fascination with the ocean and the currents of her imagination to create poems that are surprising, provocative, witty and profound. Jellyfish, toadfish and giant squid glide gracefully through the pages amid coral and weed. People too—sailors and divers, survivors and the drowned. The rhythms and sounds evoke the tides, the “song of the earth’s crust,” the waters of the blue planet.

Here, in poems about life in the sea, are intimate explorations of what it means to be human. What Publishers Weekly called the poet’s “cogent, vigorous poetry” rises to new levels of craft in Postcards from the Bottom of the Sea even as it plunges into uncharted waters.

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