Empty Bowl Press has announced the release of “Waveshock: Ed Ricketts, the Voyage of the Grampus & Our Biopoetic Future” by local poet and writer Jerry Martien.
A press release talks about the book: “Through the spring and summer of 1932, a cohort of four questing souls made its way north to Alaska aboard the 33-foot cabin cruiser Grampus. Pioneering intertidal ecologist Ed Ricketts needed 15 thousand tiny jellyfish Gonionemus for his biological supply lab; unemployed scholar Joseph Campbell sought philosophical direction and a clue to his future; early environmentalists Jack Calvin and his Russian-Tlingit partner Sasha Kashevaroff wanted to live free on a homestead in wild Alaska.
Martien revisits this epic voyage, drawing its collaborative lessons into a field he calls biopoetics, seeing the roots of his own generation’s journey and a chart for future voyagers, the press release says.
Martien is the author of several collections of poetry and Shell Game and The Price of a Life, histories of money and exchange in North America and Northwest California.
A launch reading will take place tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at Northtown Books, 957 H St., Arcata. The 86-page book is available at emptybowl.org to booksellers.
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