the watch that ends the night voices from the titanic

I also have trouble with an omniscient, anthropomorphized, malevolent iceberg (which if we are going to split hairs wasn't an iceberg in the first poem) sharing space in a book with realistic people (based on REAL people) and a very naturalistic rat. No, a disassembled paragraph is not a poem, no not a poem, this is Well done novels in verse are made up of poems that could live on their ownīut when those poems are read together, they tell a tale that couldn’t be told in prose. Scrupulously chosen words that startle with insights and imagery and ideas. Or with the clickety-clack clack clack of my keysĪ line of communication between writer and reader… This is not a poem because I italicize special thoughts

This is not a poem because from time to time This is not a poem simply because I say it is.īecause I repeat a phrase here and there. Slipping in telegraphs, undertaker's reports, and other records, poet Allan Wolf offers a breathtaking, intimate glimpse at the lives behind the tragedy, told with clear-eyed compassion and astounding emotional power.īibliography, articles, periodicals, government documents, discography The voices in this remarkable re-creation of the Titanic disaster span classes and stations, from Margaret ('the unsinkable Molly') Brown to the captain who went down with his ship from the lookout and wireless men to a young boy in search of dragons and a gambler in search of marks. And an ancient iceberg glides south, anticipating its fateful encounter. A beautiful Lebanese refugee, on her way to family in Florida, discovers the first stirrings of love. Millionaire John Jacob Astor hopes to bring home his pregnant teen bride with a minimum of media scandal. Slipping in telegraphs, undertaker's reports, and other records, poet Allan Wolf offers a breathtaking, intimate glimpse at the lives behind the tragedy, told with clear-eyed compassion and astounding emotional power.Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope-twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force.

Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope-twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force.

The watch that ends the night voices from the titanic