In and Out of Rough Water : Kelsay Books : 9781945752292 : 1945752297 : 24 Oct 2016 : In and Out of Rough Water takes its title from the rocky Pacific coast where sea lions forage in vigorous waves. Landscapes and weather provide persistent stimuli for the poems in this book. Included among the book's four sections are two sequences: Nothing Is Given moves between wilderness and city in its meditations about poetics and loss, while Wheel of Orion makes a wintry sojourn in the high desert country of central Oregon. In a variety of open and shaped forms, these poems ponder the meanings of memory, fear, and acceptance amid the harsh loveliness of life. Jayne Marek's In and Out of Rough Water presents us with an acutely apprehended "Poetics of Place and Loss" in which wisdom is hard-won but also deeply celebrated. In groups of individual lyric poems as well as a masterful lyric sequence, "Nothing is Given," reminiscent of Roethke's journey across the North American continent, this work gro