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For nearly fifteen years, writer and musician Ken Waldman has been
touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet, combining old-time
Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry and Alaska
storytelling. "D is for Dog Team" is his first children's book, a
collection of poems, songs, and illustrations that is sure to
delight kids of all ages. A companion volume, "D is for Denali",
aimed at older children and teens, comes with the book; the
resulting package will be a fireside treasure for the whole family.
Ken Waldman has toured throughout North America as Alaska's
Fiddling Poet since 1995. He is the author of six poetry
collections and has released seven CDs. This, his first book of
prose, is part memoir, part travel notes, and part artist how-to. A
Blue Highways for 2009. "Ken's story is all our stories, collected
and distilled by a roving poet/musician possessed of a clear eye
and a big heart. Waldman is clearly in the tradition of Walt
Whitman, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Allen
Ginsberg, Ken Kesey." --Jim Clark, author of Handiwork, Dancing on
Canaan's Ruins, and Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany and Jordan
Professor of Southern Literature and Writer in Residence, Barton
College, Wilson NC. "A great read. For those who've wondered what
it's like to live a life on the road in pursuit of one's passion,
here's your book. Those who already know what it's like can point
and say, 'It's like this.' From the harrowing plane crash in Alaska
all the way to the appearance at Kennedy Center stage, we feel like
we're there." --Jeff Talmadge, CoraZong Records recording artist,
internationally touring singer/songwriter.
"Full of poems that stand alone as consummate accomplishments,
Conditions and Cures nevertheless coheres as a book about
life-and-death verities, strategies for survival or triumph or at
least coping gracefully. The comic is one of those strategies, and
Ken Waldman is often at his most hilarious when he's addressing
subjects another poet might murder with solemnity. In addition, he
frequently engages with demanding forms like pantoums, villanelles,
sestinas and sonnets, submitting to their guidance but never losing
his independence. The secret of such a trick is his ear: a
professional musician, Waldman swears final allegiance to the body
of our language, its sonorities and rhythms, to its possibilities
as song-a co-strategy with the comic." -Philip Dacey
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