A Dark Boat

Written by Patrick Friesen.

Published by Anvil Press, 2012.

9781897535912 Poetry

The poems in A Dark Boat shake hands with darkness; the kind of darkness that is rich and necessary for a full human life, the darkness of soil into which seeds drop and grow, the darkness of the grave into which the body is lowered.

Heavily inspired by cante jondo (Spanish “deep song”) and Portuguese fado, these poems explore the kind of yearning that is contained in the Portuguese word saudade: a longing for something in the past that can never be found because time has shifted everything away from what it was.