$13.99
Everything Shapes Itself to the Sea is a book that follows the sea, in the best sense of that old phrase. Intimate in its addresses, conscious of the rules and bare butts of colonizers, mindful as well of what shapes “the right music” might take, this recounting of an American couple’s months in Barbados is a trove of fortunes noted. James Plath writes, “The sea is a healer, one man / told us . . .” and the book shows us in some detail that Plath’s informant was correct. Everything Shapes Itself to the Sea—short but sweet as a snap of Mount Gay—is a delight.
–C.S. Giscombe
“All anyone can do is hold however fragile / a shell against an ear, and listen.” Every one of James Plath’s poems is a threshold into a world full of startling juxtapositions. His work reveals a quality of attention that is deeply moving. Above all, these poems teach me how to listen—a rare gift, indeed.
–Joanne Diaz
Everything Shapes Itself to the Sea
by James Plath
$13.99, paper
James Plath teaches creative writing, journalism, American literature, and film at Illinois Wesleyan University and served as a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus, in Barbados. These poems, written over the years, grew out of that experience.
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