Book Review: “X Saying Here” – Holly Hughes’ Sailing by Ravens
Publication Date
6-8-2015
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Holly J. Hughes’ recent collection of poetry, Sailing by Ravens, is an immersion into nautical language and life, and an exploration of what it means to live with direction and drift, two opposing energies that tug our human lives. Sailing by Ravens is arranged in sections like compass points: north, west, south & east—each section accruing depth about navigating the ocean, experiencing the loss of love, and an exploration of human losses. The collection acts like a plumb line measuring the depth of the charts and maps that Hughes learned to love so young in her life—a plumb line of the self, that “faint tick tick of the heart.”
Publication Title
Poetry Northwest
Publisher Policy
online publication
Open Access Status
Publicly Available
Recommended Citation
Miller, JM, "Book Review: “X Saying Here” – Holly Hughes’ Sailing by Ravens" (2015). SIAS Faculty Publications. 694.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/ias_pub/694
