"I Sailed With Magellan" furthers this urban studies project.
These two collections are Dybek's first books since the publication, in 2003, of "I Sailed with Magellan".
Mr. Dybek, 65, a writer in residence at Northwestern University, is the author of three books of fiction, including "I Sailed With Magellan," and two collections of poetry.
Migration was not a word I would have used to describe what I was doing when I sailed with other West Indians to England in 1950.
In their beds, the boys retreat into nonsense singing, with a refrain that promises escape to exotic locales: "I sailed with Magellan, oh, oh, oh... boiled our shoes... ate our sails".
There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu, an elegant 1946 ketch.
In 1967, I sailed with my first husband to the Channel Islands, together yet feeling very alone.
I sailed with Dan Rossen aboard his boat, Problem Child, and I can describe the race in one word: epic.
"Back when I sailed with my dad, it took a crew of three and a Captain with nerves of steel to navigate the bay".
It was a miserable task, but during the road test after I finished, I marveled at the refreshing sense of freedom I had in the car's big interior as I sailed along with all four windows down.
