Marc Beaudin
Autor de Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Marc Beaudin in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhonda Peterson.
Obras de Marc Beaudin
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Bay City, Michigan, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Livingston, Montana, USA
- Biografía breve
- Marc Beaudin is the author of a travel memoir: Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, a poetry collection: The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems and a play: Frankenstein, Inc., as well as several chapbooks of poetry and fiction. His work has been seen in numerous journals and in the Bangtail Press anthology of Montana writers, An Elk River Books Reader, the Many Voices Press anthology, Poems Across the Big Sky, vol. 2 (forthcoming) and the Elk River Books anthology, Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Paradise (forthcoming). In 2004, he edited the anti-war anthology Jihad bil Qalam: To Strive by Means of the Pen. He is the past poetry editor of CounterPunch and the founding artistic director of the Caldera Theatre Company. Originally from Michigan, he now lives in Livingston, Montana.
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Life List por Marc Beaudin
Montana poet (and bookstore owner) Marc Beaudin has netted dozens of his poems into one beautiful literary aviary. "Life List" features a bird in every poem, from the Canada goose to the passenger pigeon. The latter poem which closes the collection is especially beautiful and heartbreaking as an unwitting Ohio farm boy out for his chores in 1900 shoots dead the last passenger pigeon seen in the wild. "Life List" is all about vanishing--the lost beauty of our ever-industrialized natural world, the lost chances, the lost loves--but it's equally about appreciating what remains. In particular, our winged friends. Riffle the pages of "Life List" and you will hear the flutter of wingbeats, demanding your attention and your compassion.… (más)
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Vagabond Song, with its deeply welcome cross section of out there politics, offers up a romance of the road with tribulations that make most of us still kinda dubious about heading out.
If we are female, his idea that his white male's thumbs out journey is as safe for others thumbs is pretty scary advice.
It's not just the highways in Alaska or the rural South which give great pause, but traveling freely around any college campus has turned into a "she's askin' for it" challenge.
Still, in the tradition of William Heat Moon and Patrick Leigh Fermor, his words stand out strong, inviting readers and travelers to enjoy his bacchanalias. It would have been wonderful if those two authors had been inspired to weave the poetry of their lands into their travel books as he has done!
Marc Beaudin's poems, the one or two liners not forever lost as well as his longer recordings, bring the road alive for readers long out of their beatnik and hippie days ... and nights...though many of us part ways with the author and Allen Ginsberg on the
"everything's holy" happy horse manure. Nope, it's not.
And Life doesn't have to be either/or. Breaking in and stealing the old diary that might (just might) have someday become a treasured grandkid's find, isn't too far from bank profiteering. Suburbia has its place, if only as a dream for the many people of the
world without any shelter, water, food, or pink stucco schools...OR...it acts as a catapult for generations to become something COOL...and GOOD.
Mind- distances: ULYSSES > blech, the nose thing
and
GATSBY is as freaking boring as GONE WITH THE WIND is racist
For Sequels, the biggest thing that could disappear without a trace of the double yellows is the way overdone, way over cutsey
"dog damn." Geez. O. Geez. And, next time, please give the chicken a drink of water, eh?
Looking forward to another fine travel journey blend of poetry, fun, and ???
Miscellaneous Jones redeems us all.… (más)
If we are female, his idea that his white male's thumbs out journey is as safe for others thumbs is pretty scary advice.
It's not just the highways in Alaska or the rural South which give great pause, but traveling freely around any college campus has turned into a "she's askin' for it" challenge.
Still, in the tradition of William Heat Moon and Patrick Leigh Fermor, his words stand out strong, inviting readers and travelers to enjoy his bacchanalias. It would have been wonderful if those two authors had been inspired to weave the poetry of their lands into their travel books as he has done!
Marc Beaudin's poems, the one or two liners not forever lost as well as his longer recordings, bring the road alive for readers long out of their beatnik and hippie days ... and nights...though many of us part ways with the author and Allen Ginsberg on the
"everything's holy" happy horse manure. Nope, it's not.
And Life doesn't have to be either/or. Breaking in and stealing the old diary that might (just might) have someday become a treasured grandkid's find, isn't too far from bank profiteering. Suburbia has its place, if only as a dream for the many people of the
world without any shelter, water, food, or pink stucco schools...OR...it acts as a catapult for generations to become something COOL...and GOOD.
Mind- distances: ULYSSES > blech, the nose thing
and
GATSBY is as freaking boring as GONE WITH THE WIND is racist
For Sequels, the biggest thing that could disappear without a trace of the double yellows is the way overdone, way over cutsey
"dog damn." Geez. O. Geez. And, next time, please give the chicken a drink of water, eh?
Looking forward to another fine travel journey blend of poetry, fun, and ???
Miscellaneous Jones redeems us all.… (más)
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