Having just looked at works by the new crop of Guggenheim fine-arts fellows, the announcement that Linda Gregg had won the $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize caught my attention, and set me off on a mission to read some of her poetry. Gregg has won many other prestigious awards before this (her bio is here). Congratulations to her.
Ploughshares, the literary journal of Emerson College, has published several of her poems online, including The Oar in the Sand, which begins:
He sailed to wherever the sirens were,
surviving by lashing himself to the mast.
An image of stalwart resistance, or weakness.
And ends:
What about afterwards? We never talk
of that. What if he goes on looking?
What if there is no place to go?
Here are links to more:
Without Design All Beauty Melts Away