[close] INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE NARWHAL is a collection of poems that populate empty parking lots and seaside pawn shops and depart from a port at Deadhorse, Alaska. The title is taken from the centerpiece poem, which composes Part I and is spoken by a narwhal who gives cryptic advice to those requiring guidance on eulogies, arctic travel, and extracting minerals from ghosts, for example. Part II is composed of quieter meditations on an absence fixed as longing, a red thread knotted at the wrist. ================================= Bateau Press publishes letterpress chapbooks as well as a bi-annual magazine. www.bateaupress.org [close]