William Briggs’s rich experience of the characters and sea-front
community of Lahaina, his sea-dog adventures, his Wharton educa-
tion, his matching intellect, and his ear for metrical poetry imbue
this book with his gravel voice and twinkling eye. Let his poems of
tales and truth shanghai you, as they did me, onto his bardic barque
then rock you on waves of rhyme and meter, surprised by your own
delight to the last page.
William Briggs’s rich experience of the characters and sea-front
community of Lahaina, his sea-dog adventures, his Wharton educa-
tion, his matching intellect, and his ear for metrical poetry imbue
this book with his gravel voice and twinkling eye. Let his poems of
tales and truth shanghai you, as they did me, onto his bardic barque
then rock you on waves of rhyme and meter, surprised by your own
delight to the last page.