The Mariner's Mirror

Author: Damion Searls

Publisher: Rain Taxi (2025)

Sailing on a sea of language, renowned translator Damion Searls here offers his first gathering of original poetry—and steers his sturdy craft on a voyage at once abstract and dappled with specificity, a watery suite that captures the nuances of one reader’s journey through books. Haunted by voices and printing techniques, and with nothing but beauty as his North Star,  Searls accomplishes the poet’s dream: He holds up the mirror and tells us what it feels like to be him.