Glad you liked the essays! And good to hear from another Long Island Sound swimmer!

I do like those DBTs…

It's pretty great - I need to get to Stratford to see it!

If this Book were Ocean, how would it feel between your fingers? Wet & slippery, just a bit warmer or colder than the air around it, since the Ocean is our planet’s greatest reservoir of heat.

READ @stevementz.bsky.social & co's OCEANIC NEW YORK: book + ocean + city.

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Here's the snippet about my book -

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And a closer view

Its the Cow & Calf that I went back to in the poems themselves - a kind of recentering via the margins

It’s gloriously disorienting, which is what the book tries to do also -

I especially love the central place of the Cow and Calf Rocks in this image. I see those rocks almost every day, but when I look out from the shore they are pretty much on the horizon. This map helps remind me that they are also a hinge between my local waters and global flows -

That's the larger fantasy of the whole book, and the map crystallizes it so amazingly. I still remember looking at the draft image - after a few false starts - and feeling that it was so exactly, strangely, disorientingly right!

What I love most about this map is its vision of putting two differently sized worlds - the global voyage of the Pequod from Moby-Dick and my own swimming haunts in coastal CT - inside of each other

I’ve got a framed copy of the book’s cover + the map + a line from one poem about dreaming of a “bigger place” in my home office