num_pages: 197
description: Great expectations developed from Hollywood movie dreams (“imagining our lives, instead of living them”) are inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving, as well as revealing, of Ms. Wakoski’s books.
language: English
title: Jason the Sailor
titlecomplete: Jason the Sailor (Archaeology of Movies and Books)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 28
series: The Archaeology of Movies and Books
publisher: Black Sparrow Press