Sailing Notes

by Kent Johnson

In April 1964, an ocean-going vessel entered the South China Sea on a secret mission. On the seventh day of its voyage, it lost contact with the South China Sea base. Remarkably, on the 147th day of its voyage, the missing ship returned to the base completely intact. Base personnel discovered that every person aboard had vanished without a trace, leaving only one survivor in a coma.

850 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 28, 2025

About the author

Kent Johnson (born 1955) is an American poet, translator, critic, and anthologist. His work, much of it meta-fictional and/or satirical in approach, has provoked a notable measure of controversy and debate within English-language poetry circles.