Summer 2016
Hello Friends,
I’m proud to announce that The Glass Jar has made its way into the world!
Huge gratitude goes out to the team at Finishing Line Press, including Christen Kincaid (editor), Leah Maines (publisher) and Elizabeth Maines (cover designer).
And to Pat Dixon for the cover photo!
I appreciate all the generous words from people who received their copy. If you pre-ordered, please know it’s on the way. It’s also still available for purchase directly from Finishing Line Press, online through the big distributors, and through your local independent bookstores.
I have readings scheduled in Port Townsend, Bellingham and Seattle this fall. Please click on the Appearances tab above for details.
If you have ideas for readings in your area, I’d love to hear about them.
As always, I appreciate your ongoing support.
With gratitude and best wishes,
Erin
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
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
Hello Friends,
I’m proud to announce that The Glass Jar has made its way into the world!
Huge gratitude goes out to the team at Finishing Line Press, including Christen Kincaid (editor), Leah Maines (publisher) and Elizabeth Maines (cover designer).
And to Pat Dixon for the cover photo!
I appreciate all the generous words from people who received their copy. If you pre-ordered, please know it’s on the way. It’s also still available for purchase directly from Finishing Line Press, online through the big distributors, and through your local independent bookstores.
I have readings scheduled in Port Townsend, Bellingham and Seattle this fall. Please click on the Appearances tab above for details.
If you have ideas for readings in your area, I’d love to hear about them.
As always, I appreciate your ongoing support.
With gratitude and best wishes,
Erin
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
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