Miriam Sagan

"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....