I Was a Shipwreck Scholar: Poems on Loss, Reckoning, and Wonder

With clarity, craft, and quiet power, Gregory LeStage's new collection stands firm in the lineage of American poetry that confronts memory, loss, and manhood without flinching.

In I Was a Shipwreck Scholar, LeStage writes with the assured voice of someone who knows the terrain-of fathers and sons, of New England coastlines, of things hard-won and harder to hold. These poems are forged with precision and restraint, built like seawalls against time's erosion. Whether reckoning with childhood, ...