Land of Cockaigne Poems

Ed Ochester's poems have a colloquial immediacy and sparking wit that appeal to a wider readership than most mainstream verse. Say Hello to the Ocean for Me Tell her I remember her true name: Thalassa. Tell her how dessicated I am. Tell her I'm dreaming of squid and the rich bed of the pearly oyster. Tell her I'm goofy for her as I always have been, tell her again how much I love to float with a giant cigar smoking like a tiny Titanic. Tell her I remember the green abd blue silks of the Gulf Stream, and the iron waves off Rockaway where I was born, where even now the aged and the infirm, Thalassa, walk through the whispering fans of foam to watch a freighter sail off the horizon and, Thalassa, they wade in deeper on their stilt legs, peer at the cumuli forming-- to them it's just clouds-- and the weightless gulls and wonderful their bodies lighter and lighter Ed Ochester, author of eleven books of poetry, has edited The Living Poem: American Poetry Now and The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry. Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Core Faculty of the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars, and past-president of Associated Writing Programs, Ochester is also the editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press Poetry Series.Ochester, Ed is the author of 'Land of Cockaigne Poems' with ISBN 9781586540074 and ISBN 1586540076.