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where my longing ends
“Reading this poetry is like exhaling after holding one’s breath for too long.”“A remarkable observer of the ways of water, wing, wind, and word.”“Astoundingly immersive… Transformative… Breathtaking beauty and wonder.”“These poems marry the skill of a naturalist with the talent of a poet.”
When I stand upon the rocky shore,gazing beyond the chain of grey-blue islands,I am on the edge of everything,and everything attains its end in me:I cannot tell where my longing endsand where the sea, the endless sea, begins.
Where my longing ends presents more than one hundred seventy poems by peregrine about the hidden rocky shores of Downeast New England, bringing together many poems from earlier collections (including thirty-nine sonnets) and introducing nearly twenty previously unpublished poems. Many of the poems in this collection explore liminalities, in particular the perceptible (and often imperceptible) edges and boundaries of sea, sky, and self, awareness of which often manifests as a sense of longing for the sea itself. Readers of peregrine’s poems will be glad to find gathered here for the first time all the ‘Bartlett Bay’ poems and stories, sea-songs and chanteys, and story-poems about earlier days on the rocky shore.
Where my longing ends | poems from the rocky shore by peregrinesoftcover, 6x9 (15x23 cm), 294 pages, September 2025ISBN 979-8-31-984852-9 ISBN 9798319848529
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