Video

Ode to the Gain by Matthew Nienow

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Description

Leslie Graham reads the poem Ode to the Gain by Matthew Nienow. A gain, as stated by the Poetry Foundation, is "a bevel cut into plank ends in traditional lapstrake boat construction that allows otherwise lapped planks to lay flush at stem and transom." Copyright by, and posted with the permission of, Matthew Nienow, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/matthew-nienow#poet

Duration

51 seconds

Credit

NPS with permission of Matthew Nienow

Date Created

10/23/2014

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