Three Months Before the Stack

by Michael Robbins

As a young man in 1948, Michael Robbins had his first great adventure when he signed on as an Ordinary Seaman on the S.S. Norlanda, a Hog Island Steamship built around 1920. This voyage took him to a pre-Castro Cuba where they packed a cargo of raw sugar to a hungry Europe, recovering from the ruins of World War II.

46 pages, Paperback

First published April 29, 2013

About the author

Michael Robbins is the author of two books of poetry and the essay collection Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s, Bookforum, The Nation, and several other publications. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Montclair State University.