Free Download Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels"
English | ISBN: 1531506313 | 2024 | 144 pages | PDF | 8 MB
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
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