On this Central Standard, poet and professor William Trowbridge shares selections from his book Ship of Fool.

The term “Ship of Fools” is one of the most enduring allegories in Western literature and art -- a vessel populated by mankind, oblivious of direction or destination… floating all in the same boat… each one a fool all by himself. In the case of Trowbridge's latest poetry collection, the archetype of the Fool stands alone on the ship.