Sea Light: Poems

Mulhallen is an accomplished poet. In her eighth book of poems, she sweeps from such large themes as the beginnings of the world, the birth of the oceans, seas and moon to human intimacy, the family, diving, winds, death, reading the clouds, and the San Andreas Fault. She has absorbed the world around her and has poured her experiences into this work.

She writes about the Vikings journeying to Newfoundland, about Myan mythology, the batcaves of Aruba, the eel-infested waters of Lake Ontario and the swimmer who crossed it. The human and the cosmic are read against each other in an expansiveness of time and space. The poems are both lyrical and epic. Sealight is for anyone who has an abiding passion for Earth and the oceans.