"Contained in Sailor in the Rain are some of the best poems of an American original, Denis M. Garrison. They are gleaned from previous collections large and small, and are presented in a carefully ordered narrative structure having a beginning, middle, and an end. The epitaph that appears at the book's close, "Sailor in the Rain"-from which the title of the whole has been taken and by which rudder the whole has been steered carefully into port...-is the only resting place you are likely to find." - from the Preface by Michael McClintock