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©1987
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205 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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"Map by David Lindroth"--Title page verso
The red mullet / by Robert Penn Warren -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- The baite / by John Donne -- The lung fish / by John Ciardi -- From The odyssey : book twelve / by Homer ; translated by Robert Fitzgerald -- The drunken fisherman / by Robert Lowell -- Song / by William Shakespeare -- Pike / by Ted Hughes -- Trolling for blues / by Richard Wilbur -- A voyage / by W.H. Auden -- The pier : under Pisces / by James Merrill
"They meet by chance on a dock at Martha's Vineyarda young man and an old fisherman on his way to catch bluefish for dinner. With some reluctance, the stranger accepts the fisherman's invitation to join him; over the summer, a new world opens to the stranger."--
Novel is written in narrative form, with poems by other authors between the chapters