Review of Richard Mather's poem "Melville and the White Whale" Review of Richard Mather's poem "Melville and the White Whale" Overview "Melville and the White Whale" is a richly evocative, poetic meditation on Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick". The submission offers an introspective journey into the symbolic and literal expanse of Melville’s narrative, threading a nuanced commentary on themes of obsession, nature, and human fallibility. Written in a freeform verse with motifs tyi

Melville and the White Whale Shut up Here in This Caved Trunk of a Room, On the Massachusetts Side of a Loose-Fish Land We Call America — and Feeling All at Sea In a World That Is Mad and Wet All Over I Write down This, My Heathen Language. Making waves. Much INK OIL WAX SPERM BLOOD Spilled to find the White Whale — Whose mighty tail-flukes billow the sea’s shroud; whose peck-slaps flap and flood six hundred pages of Great American Prosody; whose massive genitalia rem

On the other side of the optic glass, Ishmael's albino whale of the sky Leprously blemished, ghastly white.