Description
Ryler Dustin's Heavy Lead Birdsong is a collection of love poems--an old man plants orchards in his own chest, angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and a dangerous car ride through the dead of winter takes us to the Ice Age. Inspired by science and religion, grounded in subtle humor, these poems transcend modern political sorrows to celebrate the kind of human spirit that can save us.
Author: Ryler Dustin
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Published: 07/25/2008
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d
ISBN13: 9780981521374
ISBN10: 0981521371
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Ryler Dustin is the author of the poetry collection Heavy Lead Birdsong from Write Bloody Publishing. He has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam and headlined at slam venues across the U.S. He has been awarded residencies from the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His poems appear in American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, and The Best of Iron Horse.A passionate educator, he has led an award-winning after-school poetry program in Houston, visited classrooms through Writers in the Schools, and facilitated community writing with InPrint. He currently teaches writing and literature at Albion College in Michigan.