Description:
Michael Spring's final collection. Before he passed in later 2024, Michael had completed his last poetry manuscript, Approaching Pianowood Harbor, which earned Honorable Mention in the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award.
Review Quotes:
Michael Spring had a coastal nature, which filled his poetry with salt-air and sea spray, whether from the Atlantic or the Pacific. In this latest-and, sadly, last-volume of poems I can see him leaning towards the shore, squinting for perspective over the blue-green map of water. While we will miss the man, the legacy of his work will live on.
-Scott Edward Anderson, author of Azorean Suite/Suite Açoriana
These poems of Michael Spring are filled with abundant care. He deepens the process of finding alchemy in nature, aligned with both wilderness and wildness. The surreal turning of a "phone into a lobster" embraces recognition of "a new future self." Later, this self is followed by "I'm losing my mind, finally -into this old way of dreaming." His distinctive details are sublime. In Michael's words from a poem dedicated to his wife: "I will risk falling in love with every word you speak." Take the risk!
-Sara Backer, author of Such Luck