Articles
Re-Visiting Maine’s Poets
Down East Books, 2003 244 pp., $25 For too many of us, poetry is something to be avoided. There are unpleasant memories of unyielding quatrains being shoved down our adolescent throats. There’s the cultural “sissification” factor in a country that prides itself on tough, roll-up-your-sleeves machismo. Yet poetry, as Wesley McNair shows us in this
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
Photographs by Peter Forbes Chelsea Green Publishing: 2003 Hardcover $35.00 Good design is part of Maine life. Think of all those old Cape-style houses, oriented so the winter sun warms their parlors; the clean lines of boats, bows angled to cut through rough water with maximum efficiency. Even the homely lobster trap is a triumph
Far east down east: Maine’s freshest foods spiced with Asia’s finest flavors
Photographs by Glenn Scott Down East: 2003 Hardcover, index $28.00 If your idea of a terrific shore dinner is steamed lobster, period, far east down east could be a shock to your system. Or, it could open new avenues of culinary exploration. For people who want to do more with some of Maine’s staple seafoods,
In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain’s Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History
The Lyons Press, 2003. $22.95. 288 pages. Rescue at sea and the salvage of foundered shipping are as old as sea travel itself. The book of Isaiah speaks of the “dragon that is in the sea.” Literature is full of references to the sea and its dangers, from Homer’s “wine-dark sea” to Melville’s Moby Dick.