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Sailing by Ravens: The Alaska Literary Series

Autor Holly Hughes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2014
Gillnetter, mariner, and naturalist Holly Hughes has experienced first-hand the practical and philosophical consequences of navigating difficult waters. In Sailing by Ravens, she gathers wisdom gained from thirty seasons working off Alaska’s shores, weaving personal experience and her love of the sea with the history and science of navigation. In this exquisite collection of poems, Hughes deftly navigates “the wavering, certain path” of a woman’s heart, finding that sometimes the best directions to follow are those that come from the natural forces in our lives. These meditations offer waypoints for readers on their own journeys.
 
“These poems of the sea begin with a school girl’s fascination for ‘the blue sea holding captive all the land’ and end as the seasoned sailor learns that ‘even the old charts/ can’t navigate the wild shoals of your heart.’ Along the way we are shipmates through days of fishing, sailing, loving, and losing as Hughes navigates the lure, lore, and loneliness of a sea that is both natural force and metaphor. I love Sailing by Ravens with its salt of the sea, salt of our deepest lives.”
 
—Gary Thompson, author of One Thing After Another
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781602232259
ISBN-10: 1602232253
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: University of Alaska Press
Colecția University of Alaska Press
Seria The Alaska Literary Series


Notă biografică

Holly J. Hughes is coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, editor of the award-winning anthology Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, and author of Boxing the Compass. Hughes teaches writing at Edmonds Community College in Washington state. She has spent over thirty summers working on the water in Alaska in a variety of roles, including commercial fishing for salmon, skippering a 65-foot schooner, and working as a naturalist on ships.

Cuprins

North
The Navigational Fix
Horizon
Captive
Artifacts
Desire Lines
Desire is never on the map
Barometer
So Many Superstitions to Defy
Heading for Town
Body Memory
What She Can’t Say
Correcting for Variation
Correcting for Deviation
What the Sea Takes, Gives Back
Steer for the Light
Because the sea never forgets
West
Hsui
What Was Lost
Wind Rose
This World More Properly Resembles a Heart
Mercator Writes His Epitaph
Painting of John Harrison
The Forestaff
The Wounded Dog Theory: My Dog Responds
The Statue of Flavio Gioia
Bravo Ocean
Cow Falling, Again
Leap
South
Here Be Dragons
Navigating the Body
Terra Incognito
Triangulate
Deep Space
Catenary
Tied, Untied
Flotsam
Jetsam
Horse Latitudes
Equilibrate
Adrift
Existence Doubtful
Melancholia: Rima Dissolutas
She Speaks in Tongues
East
Lost
Landlocked
Dead Reckoning
The Coriolis Effect
She Dreams of Great Circle Sailing
Boxing the Compass
True North
Working on Deck
Eye Splice
Sailing by Ravens
Steering by Monarchs
Reckoning, Again
And the Universe Curved
All the Unseen Forces
Notes
Acknowledgements

Recenzii

"Hughes uses every aspect of the sea—navigation, map making, sailing – to chart her poetry. Hers is a record of Alaska’s fish industry and the strong hearts that steer it. Yet, the book is about vulnerability at sea—with all the remote sensing which that entails; and, how the work of living its boundaries and their challenges justifies our inner discoveries."

“An immersion into nautical language and life, and an exploration of what it means to live with direction and drift, two opposing energies that tug our human lives.”

"Hughes’s gift to us is a poet’s interior map taken from her experience as a navigator, plus extensive reading about the sea. According to Rilke, art must bear witness to a great solitude, and Hughes reveals the compass points of a searching heart plunged into a solitude whose terms are nothing less than to agree to being lost, to drift, and, as in the title, to learn to trust the instincts of birds. To accompany Hughes’s reveries is to experience a venturing soul whose arrival replicates the fearful exuberance of freedom; her discovery is that without such freedom, we cannot delineate the boundaries of our inner survival maps."

"In Sailing by Ravens the language of navigation, horizons, and knots begins not as metaphorical flourish but from a literal, deeply realized seagoing life. Holly Hughes has found all her compass points in mapping this world with great intelligence, compassion, and meaning."

"It’s a rare pleasure to come upon a book so well crafted, so unified in theme, so honest and true to a poet’s heart. Sailing by Ravens is a remarkable voyage. Book passage as soon as you can.”

"Hughes has worked these poems into a cycle that begins and ends on inward looking notes, but that ranges widely in the pages between, exploring navigation and life on the high seas as an essential aspect of the human experience. Collectively, the individual pieces manage to convey both the enormity of the planet and the universe beyond which setting sail opens one up to, while capturing the stiflingly claustrophobic feel of being in a tiny craft alone on the ocean. . . . This is a remarkably well composed, tightly written collection of brief poems that open up worlds."