My Secret Boat
A Notebook of Prose and Poems
Michael Burkard (Author)
Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love.
We follow the narrator on a journey as he explores the images, characters, and incidents from his past. Identities merge and even become contrary.
Book Details
- Paperback
- August 1991
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ISBN 978-0-393-30748-1
- 5.5 × 8.3 in
- Territory Rights: Worldwide
Endorsements & Reviews
“Burkard's carefully reduced stock of images is powerful: the sea, a laterns, snow, rain and ghosts. . . . The speaker lends a voluminous consciousness to us that sympathetic readers will not soon forget.” — Publishers Weekly
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