New poetry from award-winning, widely recognized Miriam Sagan, author of more than 30 books.

The poems in Castaway speak to journeys between opposing worlds: illness and health, the self and the landscape, dry land and rising sea. The long narrative poem at the book's heart--"The Librarian at Sea-Level"--chronicles Sasha, who refuses to leave her library as the ocean engulfs San Francisco, and her neighbor, Mr. Vishnu, the archetypical Preserver. Here are also poems of desert and drought, of archaeological ruins and the present, and of how to die and how to live.

Poetry.