The Mariner’s Mirror
Rain Taxi, 2025
Poetry chapbook (30 pages)
After years on the sea of reading, the mariner reflects on what he has seen, and what he has seen reflects him… “I have collected all the hard words together, he says,” Searls writes about the author of the first-ever manual of letterpress printing—but it turns out there are no hard words, only textures, feelings, “sheets of sound” and meaning that add up to a way of experiencing the world.
Available only from the publisher
First poem, from The Paris Review (PDF)