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Book SynopsisTakes us on a journey through seductive, treacherous waterways. Conveying a stormy sense of place defined less by geography than by the push and pull of the mind at odds with circumstance, this title presents the poems that plumb the depths of the sea and of the human heart in muscular, graceful language.
Trade Review"White writes about his world and makes it relevant to anyone who reads his poetry. And even when he refers to a well-known poet from the past, White's words can be clearly understood by all who struggle through this 'one salt hour between two eternities.'" -- Charles Johnson, Home News Tribune, East Brunswick, New Jersey "Full of striking poems... White's style is formal, learned and elegant." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Abundant with beaches, sails, and spray, these poems celebrate both the seductiveness and the destructive power of the sea, letting the fact of its unpredictability become a metaphor for human behavior." -- ForeWord ADVANCE PRAISE "J. P. White's The Salt Hour is a triumph of poetic art and artifice in which he plies the seas of actuality and imagination in a book packed with distinctive and memorable poetry-poetry worth rereading." - George Core, editor, Sewanee Review "J. P. White is a poet of grace, authority, and accomplishment, who aims for a hard, clean style. He is blessedly indifferent to the whims of poetic fashion, and again and again arrives at the hard-word eloquence from which the most enduring lyrics must be formed. White is also a richly various poet, elegiac, political, and literary by turns... The Salt Hour is a very fine collection indeed." - David Wojahn
