Joan Wickersham is the author of No Ship Sets Out to Be A Shipwreck, The News from Spain, and The Suicide Index.

Other poems on the web by Joan Wickersham:
"The travels of the bones"
Four poems

Joan Wickersham's Website.

About No Ship Sets Out to Be A Shipwreck:

"Even after reading Joan Wickersham's extraordinary work in the past, I was staggered by this book. I've never read anything like it. It's miraculous, unique and profound."
—André Gregory

"You may think you don't want to read a book about visiting a 17th-century shipwreck in a museum in Stockholm. That's exactly how Joan Wickersham felt about going to this museum in the first place. Then she became obsessed, and went back many times, and wrote this stunning book: about her own losses, about the reliquary impulse, about shipworms and skulls and widows, and no, you probably won't be able to read it just once. Maybe you have encountered something like this before but I have not."
—Marion Winik