$14.99
Peter Vanderberg’s celestial navigation is a book of both formal range and lyric beauty. In poems that investigate war, fatherhood, home and exile, Vanderberg bears witness to the complexities of our brutal, broken world. Found language from Navy Guides and the Beaufort Wind Scale shapes poems about danger and loss, poems in which we also often encounter the divine. Like the wind and the water, which define this book’s landscape, the work of these poems is “[n]aming the invisible by how it moves/the visible.” This is a stunning collection.
–Nicole Cooley
celestial navigation
by Peter Vanderberg
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-510-9
2021
Peter Vanderberg is the founding editor of Ghostbird Press. He served in the US Navy from 1999 – 2003 and received an MFA in Poetry from CUNY Queens College. His work has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Drunken Boat, Modern Haiku and CURA, and his chapbook Crossing Pleasant Lake is available from Red Bird Press. He lives on Long Island with his wife and four children.
David Hill –
Great book