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Haul-Out is the final collection of new and selected poetry by Stephen Tudor, who was a professor of English at Wayne State University. A devoted mariner, Tudor wrote of his passions: sailing and the Great Lakes. Along with the best poems from Tudor's Hangdog Reef, this spirited volume features forty-three unpublished poems written before he was lost at sea in 1994. Tudor captures the shifting moods and panoramas of the Great Lakes as seen through the eyes of a sailor. From Beaver Island and the Sleeping Bear Dunes to port towns and industrial cities, Tudor explores the metaphorical rhythm and wonder of the lakes and their surroundings. Not all of the poems in this accomplished and contemplative volume are about sailing. Tudor turns his keen eye on the home and writing among other subjects. In all of his work, he fuses observation of details with larger philosophical questions about life, its challenges, and its mysteries.