Salvage Author:Michael Crummey Salvage is a beautifully crafted new book of poems. It opens with a signpost alerting the reader to ?Poems about Loss/ Next 100 Pages,? poems about loved ones, relationships, innocence, faith ? all gone. But paradoxically people and events in Michael Crummey?s embrace are too vivid to fade away. Summer and winter visits to a Finnish cemet... more »ery in Northern Ontario, the aftermath of a mysterious act of arson in Kingston, Ontario, a run around fogged-in Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John?s, Newfoundland ? these experiences and others are rendered indelible in spare, luminous poems infused with conscience and heightened attention. Michael Crummey will break your heart and mend it too.« less