more moby

this from a poetry email list I'm on, by the editor of POM2, Allison Cobb:

but in Issue 4 of the magazine I co-edit POM, the
Lebanese poet Etel Adnan has a letter from Moby Dick (oppressed
peoples, objects of desire, oil, the earth itself) to Ahab (George
Bush).

Let me also add that Moby Dick, whatever its canonical status, is a beautiful,
beautiful book. Do read it!

Hart Crane's "At Melville's Tomb" is another of my favorite poems. Crane read MD
at least three times.

Susan