64 Days at Sea: A Musician's Log - Couverture souple

King, William M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1777971446 ISBN 13 : 9781777971441

Editeur : 7 Arts Press, 2025

Synopsis

For many of us who were raised in the pews and polished wooden aisles of the church, the sea first revealed itself not as turquoise postcard beauty but as something far more mythic and ominous. It came to us in Sunday School tales—Jonah, cast overboard into the roiling chaos, swallowed whole by a beast of the deep. Not exactly a travel brochure. At six, that story etched itself in the corners of my imagination: a cavernous mouth, rows of jagged teeth, and a lightless tomb beneath the surface. The sea wasn’t a vacation. It was judgment.

Then came 64 Days at Sea: no Jonah here, but plenty of reckoning. Behind the keys of a grand piano on an aging cruise ship, watching the swell of blue press against porthole glass, I felt both a prisoner and a privileged observer. The nights were velvet and humming with salt. Days were lined with sunburnt tourists and chance encounters ashore. Off the ship, I carried a camera like a diary and moved through islands with the hunger of someone half chasing memory, half writing it as it happened.

With every crossing, every shuffle of literature on my bunk—Melville, Conrad, the dog-eared classics—I fell deeper into the old magic of the sea. The imagination that once feared its black belly now swam freely in its stories, its colors, its contradictions.

Yes, I bought in. Hook, line, and ink-stained page.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 7 Arts Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1777971446
• ISBN 13: 9781777971441
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
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