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Ballads Of Lost Haven: A Book Of The Sea

Ballads Of Lost Haven: A Book Of The Sea

Carman, Bliss

Paperback

Poetry

ISBN10: 9354547133
ISBN13: 9789354547133
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2021
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A siren-song of salt air and memory, Ballads Of Lost Haven resurfaces the sea's oldest whispers for modern readers. Bliss Carman's early twentieth-century maritime vision is here reborn as a nautical poetry collection that speaks with both wind-blown immediacy and enduring craft. This volume offers more than verse: a cohesive traditional ballad form that threads loss and longing with coastal legends, shoreline and tides, and the stubborn pull of home. Its music-round, accessible, haunting-lends itself to reading circles and study alike, inviting casual readers and classic-literature collectors to linger, compare, and discover the cadences that shaped Canadian maritime poets. Set against a maritime Nova Scotia sensibility, the poems illuminate a world where sea-room becomes a canvas for memory and myth. A note on its place in literary history: the collection stands as a significant public-domain treasure, restored for today's generations and preserved as a touchstone of regional voice and form. Alpha Editions brings this title back not merely as a reprint, but as a collector's item and a cultural treasure, honouring Carman's contribution to Canadian letters and to the broader lineage of sea ballads. Key themes and uses are woven into the prose naturally: the work suits reading circles, study for students, and sustained, reflective reading. It is a public domain poetry collection that remains essential for lovers of traditional balladry and maritime lore. Out of print for decades, it is now restored for today's and future readers.

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