{"product_id":"sailing-without-ahab-ecopoetic-travels-hardback-9781531506315","title":"Sailing Without Ahab; Ecopoetic Travels (Hardback) 9781531506315","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSailing Without Ahab\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEcopoetic Travels\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteve Mentz (Author), Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531506315\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages, 1 map, 2 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.376 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJourney through uncharted literary waters and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplore Melville's epic in bold new light\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Come sail with I.\u003cbr\u003e We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the \u003ci\u003ePequod\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\u003cbr\u003e This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword, by Suzanne Conklin Akbari \u003c\/i\u003e  xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEtymology (Supplied by a late consumptive Professor)\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e Sailing Without   3\u003cbr\u003e Headless Travels   5\u003cbr\u003e Loomings   11\u003cbr\u003e Out of Place   12\u003cbr\u003e Fishing   13\u003cbr\u003e Change   14\u003cbr\u003e Vision   15\u003cbr\u003e The Street   16\u003cbr\u003e The Chapel   17\u003cbr\u003e The Pulpit   18\u003cbr\u003e Storm and Wreck   19\u003cbr\u003e A Bosom Friend   20\u003cbr\u003e Ideas   21\u003cbr\u003e Mapping Oceans   22\u003cbr\u003e Houses in Houses   23\u003cbr\u003e Nantucket   24\u003cbr\u003e Chowder   25\u003cbr\u003e Who's on the Ship?   26\u003cbr\u003e Intermittent Fasting   27\u003cbr\u003e Sea Living   28\u003cbr\u003e The Prophet   29\u003cbr\u003e Tomorrow!   30\u003cbr\u003e Going Aboard   31\u003cbr\u003e Merry Christmas   32\u003cbr\u003e The Lee Shore   33\u003cbr\u003e The Encounter   34\u003cbr\u003e Oil   35\u003cbr\u003e Politics   36\u003cbr\u003e Knights and Squires   37\u003cbr\u003e [ . . . ]   38\u003cbr\u003e A Scene on the Quarterdeck   39\u003cbr\u003e No Pipe   40\u003cbr\u003e Queen Mab   41\u003cbr\u003e No Book   42\u003cbr\u003e Lines of Succession   43\u003cbr\u003e Dinner   44\u003cbr\u003e The Mast-Head   45\u003cbr\u003e A Spring Rose   46\u003cbr\u003e Sunset   47\u003cbr\u003e Dusk   48\u003cbr\u003e First Night Watch   49\u003cbr\u003e Forecastle—Midnight   50\u003cbr\u003e Moby-Dick   51\u003cbr\u003e Great White Evil God   52\u003cbr\u003e Devils Who Never Sleep   53\u003cbr\u003e The Chart   54\u003cbr\u003e The Kind of Harpoon I. Throws   55\u003cbr\u003e Not Seasick   56\u003cbr\u003e Weavers   57\u003cbr\u003e The First Lowering   58\u003cbr\u003e Testament   59\u003cbr\u003e Fedallah   60\u003cbr\u003e The Spirit-Spout   61\u003cbr\u003e The P. Does Not Meet the Albatross   62\u003cbr\u003e How to Speak Whale   63\u003cbr\u003e The Town Ho's Story   64\u003cbr\u003e Monstrous Pictures of Whales   65\u003cbr\u003e Cetacean Errors   66\u003cbr\u003e Whale Rock   67\u003cbr\u003e Blue Dreams   68\u003cbr\u003e Squid   69\u003cbr\u003e The Line   70\u003cbr\u003e Stubb Kills a Whale   71\u003cbr\u003e Authorities   72\u003cbr\u003e Wooden Bodies   73\u003cbr\u003e Eating Whale   74\u003cbr\u003e Cannibal Old Me   75\u003cbr\u003e Two Shark Stories   76\u003cbr\u003e Whales and Other Humans   77\u003cbr\u003e In the Whalelight   78\u003cbr\u003e Whalefall   79\u003cbr\u003e The Whale's Head   80\u003cbr\u003e No Tail on the Jeroboam   81\u003cbr\u003e The Monkey-rope   82\u003cbr\u003e Brothers in Arms   83\u003cbr\u003e The Sperm Whale's Head   84\u003cbr\u003e The Right Whale's Head   85\u003cbr\u003e I.'s Blue   86\u003cbr\u003e Let the Oil Out!   87\u003cbr\u003e Birthing Tash   88\u003cbr\u003e Read It If You Can   89\u003cbr\u003e A Hill of Snow   90\u003cbr\u003e The P. Meets the V.   91\u003cbr\u003e The Honor and Glory of Whaling   92\u003cbr\u003e Jonah Historically Regarded   93\u003cbr\u003e Just a Little Farther   94\u003cbr\u003e How We Breathe   95\u003cbr\u003e The Tail   96\u003cbr\u003e The Grand Armada   97\u003cbr\u003e A Love Story   98\u003cbr\u003e Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish   99\u003cbr\u003e Heads or Tails   100\u003cbr\u003e The P. Meets the Rose Bud   101\u003cbr\u003e Ambergris   102\u003cbr\u003e The Castaway   103\u003cbr\u003e A Squeeze of the Hand   104\u003cbr\u003e The Cassock   105\u003cbr\u003e The State of the Ship   106\u003cbr\u003e The Lamp   107\u003cbr\u003e The Search   109\u003cbr\u003e No Doubloon   110\u003cbr\u003e The P. Meets the Samuel Enderby of London   112\u003cbr\u003e The Next Voyage   112\u003cbr\u003e Inside the Skeleton   113\u003cbr\u003e Measurements of the Whale's Skeleton   114\u003cbr\u003e The Fossil Whale   115\u003cbr\u003e Save the Whales!   116\u003cbr\u003e Glass Foot   117\u003cbr\u003e The Carpenter   118\u003cbr\u003e What the Carpenter Says   119\u003cbr\u003e Starbuck in the Cabin   120\u003cbr\u003e Q. in His Coffin   121\u003cbr\u003e The Pacific   122\u003cbr\u003e The Blacksmith   123\u003cbr\u003e Making a Harpoon   124\u003cbr\u003e Calenture   125\u003cbr\u003e The P. Meets the Bachelor   126\u003cbr\u003e The Dying Whale   127\u003cbr\u003e When It's Almost Possible to See   128\u003cbr\u003e The Quadrant   129\u003cbr\u003e Swimmer in Storm   130\u003cbr\u003e The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch   131\u003cbr\u003e Midnight—the Forecastle Bulwarks   132\u003cbr\u003e Midnight, Aloft—Thunder and Lightning   133\u003cbr\u003e Errors in a Book   134\u003cbr\u003e At Sea   135\u003cbr\u003e The Log and Line   136\u003cbr\u003e The Life-Buoy   137\u003cbr\u003e Coffins   138\u003cbr\u003e The P. Meets the Rachel   139\u003cbr\u003e Pip in the Cabin  140\u003cbr\u003e No Hat   141\u003cbr\u003e The P. 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