Many Gods

A sailor cries “All’s well” from the mast—but beneath him, the sea mouths madness to the moon, and a lone voice wonders whether the world itself is a derelict.

In this early twentieth-century collection, Cale Young Rice’s poems move from rain-darkened temples in Japan to a typhoon over Hong Kong and the vast, star-haunted sea. Lovers mourn, travelers long for home, and voices caught between faiths ask what gods can promise in a world of grief, beauty and change. Across these shifting landscapes, the poems hold private heartbreak beside questions immense enough to trouble the heavens: is there a purpose guiding the worlds through darkness, or must each soul make its own peace?

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