The Captain Lands in Paradise by Sarah Manguso. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2002.

A nicely designed book, aside from the 7-point type, hard on my 43-year-old eyes. The mode is mostly third-generation deep-image Iowa, with some New York school whimsy: "A girl walks up the dunes with the aid of a cane, trying not to get sand in her heart. All around her, very beautifully, houses fall in the ocean and disappear." "At a party in January an entire shelf of books / fell on some teenagers. // They weren't expecting it. / They found it delightful and newsworthy." I found the book as a whole charming and true to its self.