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The Bird May Be Dead But It Is Your Bird

The Bird May Be Dead But It Is Your Bird - Paperback

by C. E. Putnam
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Availability:In StockContributor:C. E. PutnamPublish date:2024-09-20Pages:80
Languages:EnglishPublisher:P.I.S.O.R. PublicationsISBN-13:9781965345009ISBN-10:196534500XUPC:9781965345009Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.50 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.23Product ID:SCXGN0YTHT

A majority of the poems in C.E.'s seventh book were written between 2014-2020 after he returned to the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Oregon) after four years spent in Singapore. The poems move through imagined worlds along pathways celestial and earthly teeming with the life of our disappearing natural world.

Inside the book you might find: an amazing bowl of noodles, smoked catfish, pink-dawn hitchhiking, sixteen children, a shortwave radio, starfish, eight kinds of rain, house trained beavers, fireflies, a broken space belt, leopard lovers, a magical eating house, a frequently tardy blacksmith, moss, penguin priests, the moon radish, and many more creatures living, dying, and dead.

Praise:

I'm not a fan of proper nouns, but who can say no to "Goon River", "Influence Worm", or "Beanleaf Hopper"? Not me, bud. I put up with it, and then I got fed. A little too much, maybe, but I like it when there's some left over. It speaks to my faith in the future. C.E. Putnam knows that to prepare for the future you must be generous, as generous as you dare. The universe is constantly expanding. This is what keeping up looks like. -- Buck Downs

Imagine being willingly locked in a comfortable but remote tavern in which there's a jukebox with only two songs on it. One song is Captain Beefheart's "Frownland," the other is Prince's "Delirious." That's what reading this book is like-complete wildness, total control; unhinged and swinging. The Bird May Be Dead But It Is Your Bird is for anyone and everyone, but it could only have been written by one C.E. Putnam. - Graham Foust

Languages:EnglishPublisher:P.I.S.O.R. PublicationsISBN-13:9781965345009ISBN-10:196534500XUPC:9781965345009Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.50 x 0.19 inchesWeight:0.23Product ID:SCXGN0YTHT
Putnam, C. E.: - Seattle born, C.E Putnam has lived in four world capitals: London, Singapore, Bangkok, and Washington DC. His books include XX Elegies, a broken-lyric re-versioning of John Donne's fabulously strange and disturbed poetic series of sex and death, longing and loss and Maniac Box: twenty-seven film treatments. Maniac Box has recently been re-published as a series of 27 collectible mugs. He has previously served as curator and presenter for the Subtext Reading series in Seattle, WA and DC Poetry at the DCAC arts center in Washington DC. His sound works include P.I.S.O.R. SCARES, a series of mind-melting Halloween themed sound collages now in it's 21st year, and an ambient-drone work, "Music for Plants and other living things."He is the founder of the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research (P.I.S.O.R.) and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Publisher: P.I.S.O.R. Publications

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