Sea Author:John O'Leary Where are they from, if not the sea? This new volume, SEA, is the corollary of SALT - its companion and completion. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets of want, so these 77 "broken sonnets," with the 77 of SALT impose on that number. If SALT was a book about longing, this new volume is a book of songs of praise, all praise. Christopher Smart praises G... more »od in the post office and in his cat and in a harping iron, because what else would be their purpose and because nothing else but praise can control fear. He is here, and many other voices, incessant and insistent as the sound of the sea.« less