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Sailing Without Ahab
Ecopoetic Travels
Taschenbuch von Steve Mentz
Sprache: Englisch

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Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville's epic in bold new light

Come 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.

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville's epic in bold new light

Come 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.

Über den Autor
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 [...]
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari | xv
Etymology (Supplied by a late consumptive Professor) | 1

Sailing Without | 3

Headless Travels | 5

Loomings | 11

Out of Place | 12

Fishing | 13

Change | 14

Vision | 15

The Street | 16

The Chapel | 17

The Pulpit | 18

Storm and Wreck | 19

A Bosom Friend | 20

Ideas | 21

Mapping Oceans | 22

Houses in Houses | 23

Nantucket | 24

Chowder | 25

Who's on the Ship? | 26

Intermittent Fasting | 27

Sea Living | 28

The Prophet | 29

Tomorrow! | 30

Going Aboard | 31

Merry Christmas | 32

The Lee Shore | 33

The Encounter | 34

Oil | 35

Politics | 36

Knights and Squires | 37

[ . . . ] | 38

A Scene on the Quarterdeck | 39

No Pipe | 40

Queen Mab | 41

No Book | 42

Lines of Succession | 43

Dinner | 44

The Mast-Head | 45

A Spring Rose | 46

Sunset | 47

Dusk | 48

First Night Watch | 49

Forecastle-Midnight | 50

Moby-Dick | 51

Great White Evil God | 52

Devils Who Never Sleep | 53

The Chart | 54

The Kind of Harpoon I. Throws | 55

Not Seasick | 56

Weavers | 57

The First Lowering | 58

Testament | 59

Fedallah | 60

The Spirit-Spout | 61

The P. Does Not Meet the Albatross | 62

How to Speak Whale | 63

The Town Ho's Story | 64

Monstrous Pictures of Whales | 65

Cetacean Errors | 66

Whale Rock | 67

Blue Dreams | 68

Squid | 69

The Line | 70

Stubb Kills a Whale | 71

Authorities | 72

Wooden Bodies | 73

Eating Whale | 74

Cannibal Old Me | 75

Two Shark Stories | 76

Whales and Other Humans | 77

In the Whalelight | 78

Whalefall | 79

The Whale's Head | 80

No Tail on the Jeroboam | 81

The Monkey-rope | 82

Brothers in Arms | 83

The Sperm Whale's Head | 84

The Right Whale's Head | 85

I.'s Blue | 86

Let the Oil Out! | 87

Birthing Tash | 88

Read It If You Can | 89

A Hill of Snow | 90

The P. Meets the V. | 91

The Honor and Glory of Whaling | 92

Jonah Historically Regarded | 93

Just a Little Farther | 94

How We Breathe | 95

The Tail | 96

The Grand Armada | 97

A Love Story | 98

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish | 99

Heads or Tails | 100

The P. Meets the Rose Bud | 101

Ambergris | 102

The Castaway | 103

A Squeeze of the Hand | 104

The Cassock | 105

The State of the Ship | 106

The Lamp | 107

The Search | 109

No Doubloon | 110

The P. Meets the Samuel Enderby of London | 112

The Next Voyage | 112

Inside the Skeleton | 113

Measurements of the Whale's Skeleton | 114

The Fossil Whale | 115

Save the Whales! | 116

Glass Foot | 117

The Carpenter | 118

What the Carpenter Says | 119

Starbuck in the Cabin | 120

Q. in His Coffin | 121

The Pacific | 122

The Blacksmith | 123

Making a Harpoon | 124

Calenture | 125

The P. Meets the Bachelor | 126

The Dying Whale | 127

When It's Almost Possible to See | 128

The Quadrant | 129

Swimmer in Storm | 130

The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch | 131

Midnight-the Forecastle Bulwarks | 132

Midnight, Aloft-Thunder and Lightning | 133

Errors in a Book | 134

At Sea | 135

The Log and Line | 136

The Life-Buoy | 137

Coffins | 138

The P. Meets the Rachel | 139

Pip in the Cabin| 140

No Hat | 141

The P. Meets the Delight | 142

The Symphony | 143

The Chase-First Day | 144

The Chase-Second Day | 145

The Chase-Third Day | 149

Epilogue | 151

A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick | 153

Acknowledgments | 173

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781531506322
ISBN-10: 1531506321
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mentz, Steve
Hersteller: Fordham University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Steve Mentz
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2024
Gewicht: 0,259 kg
Artikel-ID: 127386140
Über den Autor
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 [...]
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari | xv
Etymology (Supplied by a late consumptive Professor) | 1

Sailing Without | 3

Headless Travels | 5

Loomings | 11

Out of Place | 12

Fishing | 13

Change | 14

Vision | 15

The Street | 16

The Chapel | 17

The Pulpit | 18

Storm and Wreck | 19

A Bosom Friend | 20

Ideas | 21

Mapping Oceans | 22

Houses in Houses | 23

Nantucket | 24

Chowder | 25

Who's on the Ship? | 26

Intermittent Fasting | 27

Sea Living | 28

The Prophet | 29

Tomorrow! | 30

Going Aboard | 31

Merry Christmas | 32

The Lee Shore | 33

The Encounter | 34

Oil | 35

Politics | 36

Knights and Squires | 37

[ . . . ] | 38

A Scene on the Quarterdeck | 39

No Pipe | 40

Queen Mab | 41

No Book | 42

Lines of Succession | 43

Dinner | 44

The Mast-Head | 45

A Spring Rose | 46

Sunset | 47

Dusk | 48

First Night Watch | 49

Forecastle-Midnight | 50

Moby-Dick | 51

Great White Evil God | 52

Devils Who Never Sleep | 53

The Chart | 54

The Kind of Harpoon I. Throws | 55

Not Seasick | 56

Weavers | 57

The First Lowering | 58

Testament | 59

Fedallah | 60

The Spirit-Spout | 61

The P. Does Not Meet the Albatross | 62

How to Speak Whale | 63

The Town Ho's Story | 64

Monstrous Pictures of Whales | 65

Cetacean Errors | 66

Whale Rock | 67

Blue Dreams | 68

Squid | 69

The Line | 70

Stubb Kills a Whale | 71

Authorities | 72

Wooden Bodies | 73

Eating Whale | 74

Cannibal Old Me | 75

Two Shark Stories | 76

Whales and Other Humans | 77

In the Whalelight | 78

Whalefall | 79

The Whale's Head | 80

No Tail on the Jeroboam | 81

The Monkey-rope | 82

Brothers in Arms | 83

The Sperm Whale's Head | 84

The Right Whale's Head | 85

I.'s Blue | 86

Let the Oil Out! | 87

Birthing Tash | 88

Read It If You Can | 89

A Hill of Snow | 90

The P. Meets the V. | 91

The Honor and Glory of Whaling | 92

Jonah Historically Regarded | 93

Just a Little Farther | 94

How We Breathe | 95

The Tail | 96

The Grand Armada | 97

A Love Story | 98

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish | 99

Heads or Tails | 100

The P. Meets the Rose Bud | 101

Ambergris | 102

The Castaway | 103

A Squeeze of the Hand | 104

The Cassock | 105

The State of the Ship | 106

The Lamp | 107

The Search | 109

No Doubloon | 110

The P. Meets the Samuel Enderby of London | 112

The Next Voyage | 112

Inside the Skeleton | 113

Measurements of the Whale's Skeleton | 114

The Fossil Whale | 115

Save the Whales! | 116

Glass Foot | 117

The Carpenter | 118

What the Carpenter Says | 119

Starbuck in the Cabin | 120

Q. in His Coffin | 121

The Pacific | 122

The Blacksmith | 123

Making a Harpoon | 124

Calenture | 125

The P. Meets the Bachelor | 126

The Dying Whale | 127

When It's Almost Possible to See | 128

The Quadrant | 129

Swimmer in Storm | 130

The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch | 131

Midnight-the Forecastle Bulwarks | 132

Midnight, Aloft-Thunder and Lightning | 133

Errors in a Book | 134

At Sea | 135

The Log and Line | 136

The Life-Buoy | 137

Coffins | 138

The P. Meets the Rachel | 139

Pip in the Cabin| 140

No Hat | 141

The P. Meets the Delight | 142

The Symphony | 143

The Chase-First Day | 144

The Chase-Second Day | 145

The Chase-Third Day | 149

Epilogue | 151

A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick | 153

Acknowledgments | 173

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781531506322
ISBN-10: 1531506321
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mentz, Steve
Hersteller: Fordham University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Steve Mentz
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2024
Gewicht: 0,259 kg
Artikel-ID: 127386140
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