Extraordinary TidesA poetry chapbook that reflects on shifting time and tides through the language of the shoreline. Pattie McCarthys Extraordinary Tides occupies a space in the intertidal, the in between place of not quite land and not quite sea. The poems reflect on passing time, fluctuating tides, and on our efforts to predict both. Upon a ground that is always in flux beneath us, McCarthy invites us to question if and how we really know where we are. Considering the