Books published by Black Willow Press

How do we know what we know about chanties? Beginning with the earliest sources, this book traces the history of writing about chanties - exploring the layers of discourse that have developed as authors and collectors have relied on, borrowed from, and contradicted those that came before them - creating an indispensible guide to the primary authors and sources through a century and a half of chanty literature.

In this gathering of old and new poems, Keith Harrison offers specific and wide-ranging instances of how love works, tangibly, undeniably, in our lives. The poems range from mischievous aphorisms to the darker ironies of divorce, from the lyrical to the elegiac, from lost love to joyful affirmation.