Sailing Without Ahab

Ecopoetic Travels

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvSteve Mentz

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Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville's epic in bold new lightCome sail with I.We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod's American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality—multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, polyphonic, playful, violent. But on this voyage something is different. Today we sail headless without any Captain. Instead of binding ourselves to the dismasted tyrant's rage, the ship's crew seeks only what we will find: currents teeming with life, a blue-watered alien globe, toothy cetacean smiles from vasty deeps. Treasures await those who sail without.This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in Moby-Dick, plus the Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue—launches into oceanic chaos without the stabilizing mad focus of the Nantucket captain. Guided by waywardness and curiosity, these poems seek an alien ecopoetics of marine depths, the refraction of light, the taste of salt on skin. Directionless, these poems reach out to touch oceanic expanse and depth. It's not an easy voyage, and not a certain one. It lures you forward. It has fixed its barbed hook in I.Sailing without means relinquishing goals, sleeping at the masthead, forgetting obsessions. I welcome you to trace wayward ways through these poems. Read them any way you can—back to front, at random, sideways, following the obscure promptings of your heart. It's the turning that matters. It's a blue wonder world that beckons.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-02
Mått140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagFordham University Press
MedarbetareSuzanneConklin Akbari
ISBN9781531506315

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Steve Mentz (Author) Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University and author of An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), Ocean (2020) and a poetry chapbook, "Swim Poems" (2022). He also writes and curates The Bookfish Blog at www.stevementz.com.Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Foreword By) Suzanne Conklin Akbari is professor of Medieval Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and co-host of the literature podcast The Spouter-Inn.

Foreword, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari xvEtymology (Supplied by a late consumptive Professor) 1Sailing Without 3Headless Travels 5Loomings 11Out of Place 12Fishing 13Change 14Vision 15The Street 16The Chapel 17The Pulpit 18Storm and Wreck 19A Bosom Friend 20Ideas 21Mapping Oceans 22Houses in Houses 23Nantucket 24Chowder 25Who's on the Ship? 26Intermittent Fasting 27Sea Living 28The Prophet 29Tomorrow! 30Going Aboard 31Merry Christmas 32The Lee Shore 33The Encounter 34Oil 35Politics 36Knights and Squires 37[ . . . ] 38A Scene on the Quarterdeck 39No Pipe 40Queen Mab 41No Book 42Lines of Succession 43Dinner 44The Mast-Head 45A Spring Rose 46Sunset 47Dusk 48First Night Watch 49Forecastle—Midnight 50Moby-Dick 51Great White Evil God 52Devils Who Never Sleep 53The Chart 54The Kind of Harpoon I. Throws 55Not Seasick 56Weavers 57The First Lowering 58Testament 59Fedallah 60The Spirit-Spout 61The P. Does Not Meet the Albatross 62How to Speak Whale 63The Town Ho's Story 64Monstrous Pictures of Whales 65Cetacean Errors 66Whale Rock 67Blue Dreams 68Squid 69The Line 70Stubb Kills a Whale 71Authorities 72Wooden Bodies 73Eating Whale 74Cannibal Old Me 75Two Shark Stories 76Whales and Other Humans 77In the Whalelight 78Whalefall 79The Whale's Head 80No Tail on the Jeroboam 81The Monkey-rope 82Brothers in Arms 83The Sperm Whale's Head 84The Right Whale's Head 85I.'s Blue 86Let the Oil Out! 87Birthing Tash 88Read It If You Can 89A Hill of Snow 90The P. Meets the V. 91The Honor and Glory of Whaling 92Jonah Historically Regarded 93Just a Little Farther 94How We Breathe 95The Tail 96The Grand Armada 97A Love Story 98Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 99Heads or Tails 100The P. Meets the Rose Bud 101Ambergris 102The Castaway 103A Squeeze of the Hand 104The Cassock 105The State of the Ship 106The Lamp 107The Search 109No Doubloon 110The P. Meets the Samuel Enderby of London 112The Next Voyage 112Inside the Skeleton 113Measurements of the Whale's Skeleton 114The Fossil Whale 115Save the Whales! 116Glass Foot 117The Carpenter 118What the Carpenter Says 119Starbuck in the Cabin 120Q. in His Coffin 121The Pacific 122The Blacksmith 123Making a Harpoon 124Calenture 125The P. Meets the Bachelor 126The Dying Whale 127When It's Almost Possible to See 128The Quadrant 129Swimmer in Storm 130The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch 131Midnight—the Forecastle Bulwarks 132Midnight, Aloft—Thunder and Lightning 133Errors in a Book 134At Sea 135The Log and Line 136The Life-Buoy 137Coffins 138The P. Meets the Rachel 139Pip in the Cabin 140No Hat 141The P. Meets the Delight 142The Symphony 143The Chase—First Day 144The Chase—Second Day 145The Chase—Third Day 149Epilogue 151A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick 153Acknowledgments 173