$13.99
With The Glass Jar, Erin Fristad opens for everyone a surprisingly human and direct path into the mind and heart of today’s commercial fishing deckhand. Whether it’s a consideration of the sublime of the wild, a frank depiction of the ugly side of crewmates or a yawp of praise at being alive one more day, this fierce writing beats with the blood at the heart of all living beings.
–Moe Bowstern, writer, artist, fisherwoman and editor/publisher of the award winning zine, Xtra Tuf since 1996.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
By this book’s light you peer through a porthole of visceral poetry and prose into a life onboard where the hiss of the stove, seething fish-hold, deckhand’s mood, rough weather and scant wages all cast you free from landed comforts. You are no longer their prisoner. By choosing the working life, Fristad’s fine intelligence has great gifts for the reader’s mind.
–Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
The Glass Jar
by Erin Fristad
$13.99, paper
Erin Fristad is of the Northwest: she is the spawn of loggers, miners and commercial fishermen. She survived 15 years working as a professional deckhand on fishing and research vessels in the waters reaching from the Columbia River to Togiak, Alaska. She lives in Washington State and currently works as a writer, educator, facilitator…and itinerant farmhand.
You can learn more about her at www.erinfristad.com.
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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