Of Whales

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Of Whales is written by Anthony Caleshu and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1844715027 (ISBN 10) and 9781844715022 (ISBN 13).

Melville's Moby-Dick has had its share of writers and artists use it as a source for their own work. Caleshu re-imagines the novel (word for word in one poem) as he casts himself and others between home and sea, the present and Melville's world. Central to the collection are poems where a father speaks of whales (in print, in paint, in sea, in stars, in coin, in house, in margins) to his colicky newborn son in the darkest hours of the night.