Unsinkable

“What is Titanic? A ship? A colossal disaster? An example of human hubris? A deep-sea habitat? An ephemeral space that held musicians, pets, travelers, dreamers, crew, tableware, pianos, and t-strap shoes? More than all of that. This anthology brings together a diverse array of poets who have found the Titanic and all its ephemera sailing into their work—from Etheridge Knight (‘And, yeah brothers / while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown’) to Elizabeth Bishop (‘We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship’) to Anna M. Evans’s abecedarian (‘Animals of the Titanic’). The ‘Notes’ alone in this anthology are a map of resonance, of how fascination is an alchemical thing, of how history keeps speaking to us into the present and future.” Elizabeth Bradfield, author of SOFAR: Poems and Toward Antarctica“The story of the Titanic is one we think we all know—one of hubris, of ‘human conceit brought down by nature.’ Its wreckage lies in darkness, 2100 fathoms deep. And after more than a century, it still exercises a potent pull on the collective imagination. In the remarkable anthology that is Unsinkable, we have poems that explore industrial and maritime history; contemporary reportage and oral accounts; and a world undergoing seismic political change. But these poems transcend their source material to bring the reader into realms of elegy, fairy tale, myth and
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