The Captain Lands in Paradise2002
Poems
by Sarah Manguso
“Rarely does a first book resolve itself so assuredly to such a singly consistent and instructive rhetoric as <em>The Captain Lands in Paradise</em>.” —<em>Boston Review</em>
“While she may be ‘only trying to find my drink/ and to communicate without lying,’ Manguso accomplishes a great deal more.” —<em>Publishers Weekly</em>
“Sarah Manguso’s poems weirdly plumb and strikingly frame what we’re up against: the now in which the Muse drives a silver pickup, mystery only announces itself out of grief for us, and to reach harbor is to understand there will be no end of searching. Hers is a startling, disturbing, and original voice.” —Carl Phillips
“At times disarmingly straightforward, at others elegantly convoluted, Sarah Manguso’s poems evade and persuade us of the perils and...