Everything Shapes Itself to the Sea

Everything Shapes Itself to the Sea is an account of an American couple's months on the Caribbean island of Barbados, whose people, bounties, and rhythms inspired these poems, many of which were first published in leading literary magazines. James Plath's poems have also appeared in Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America, Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange, and Where We Live: Illinois Poets.