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,...
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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 o LeapSouth; Here Be Dragons; Navigating the Body; Terra Incognita; Triangulate; Deep Space; Catenary; Tied, Untied; Flot sam; 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; Acknowledgments. 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 1587; The Wounded Dog Theory: My Dog Responds; The Statue of Flavio Gioia; Bravo Ocean; Cow Falling, Again.
