Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

Bear, Coyote, Raven (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A bear can be a person, though most prefer to be bears. Did a coyote ever lead you to a story? Have you ever lost yourself in the blue-black eye of a raven? Imagine three such creatures transitioning from people to animals and back, walking along a desert highway dressed in their finest three-piece suits: ribbon shirts, jeans, and moccasins, foraging a city alley for supper, or sharing stories under a starlit sky. If you listen closely, you could learn something from these three magical creatures. In his first book of poems, Jason Grundstrom-Whitney introduces us to numerous variations of this American trio. Sometimes Bear gets his paw stuck in a back-street dumpster. Coyote shows people how to trick themselves. Raven travels to the far north to bring back another story.

The poems in Bear, Coyote, and Raven welcome the reader into their shape shifting world, where themes of environmental degradation, violence, and technological troubles explore what we have lost and suggest solutions: to connect with the web of being and those blessed in their own right. The poet asks us to engage, to take the time to invest our energy, and to explore this different way of being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Resolute Bear Press
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780998819563
• Artikelnr.: 58429153

Autorenporträt

Jason Grundstrom-Whitney, is an adopted Bear Clan member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and a musician who plays various wind instruments for classical, jazz, rock, funk, country, blues, and rap. The band Osha Root recently produced a CD featuring Jason's music and poetry. His poetry has appeared in 3 Nations Anthology and in the Underground Writers Association's Anthology of Maine Poets. Bear, Coyote, Raven is his first full-length collection of his own poems. A graduate of the University of Southern Maine, Jason has spent a lifetime working on Native American Rights, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence survival, Hospice and end of life, the homeless, environment, and alternative medicine. He has worked as a Substance Abuse Counselor and a Specialist at the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta, Maine.Jason studied with a variety of native teachers and also learned from many others while he hitch-hiked for two and a half across America and has written about these experiences. He is a father, grandfather, and husband, and has been in recovery for 37 years.