Marine Life Author:Karen Williams Marine life, to me, involves more than the sea, its creatures, its mysteries and its many wonders. It also embraces the daily lives of those associated with the sea. They either live by it or work in its environment. They either partake of its bounty or try to protect and steward it. These are groups of which you and I are part. The sea of human... more »ity, and the poems to follow, are ours, and the sea s stories. Karen S. Williams in Marine Life: A World in Poems With Marine Life: A World in Poems, 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee and 2009 Poets and Writers Magazine Debut Poet, Karen S. Williams, offers a lush and lyrical new collection: a tender, evocative exploration of life in and out of the sea. Stirred by her life-long interest in creation, and the beauty and lessons of the marine world, interests born as she watched The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau in her grandmother s living room, these eighteen poems splash and play, enamor and sparkle like dolphins leaping toward a brilliant sun. Her deeply visionary eye and voice, and the book that emerges, is one of wisdom, spectacular imagery, and fascination. Williams, called by American poet, M.L. Liebler, one of the finest poets writing in Metropolitan Detroit, gives readers, nature lovers, environmentalists and everyday humans a bright and deeply meditative collection that dares them to respect and care for each other as well as the natural world, a world in which we love, encounter, overcome and prosper, think and dream.« less