num_pages: 72
description: Sarah Manguso’s first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia, remorse, and the joyful and mysterious preparation for the discoveries of new lands, selves, and ideas. The voice is consistently spare, honest, understated, and eccentric.
language: English
title: The Captain Lands in Paradise
titlecomplete: The Captain Lands in Paradise
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 231
publisher: Alice James Books