Drift
By: Caroline Bergvall
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781937658205
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Boat people; Seafaring life; English language; Sailors; Sagas; Refugees; History
Description: Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both ancient and contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the plight and losses of wanderers across the waters in this haunting new book.
Notes: Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.