A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders
Martin Achatz
A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders is a compendium of natural and unnatural astonishment, anatomizing all those big, hairy monsters that haunt the human condition. Follow their footprints through these pages, and Martin Achatz may just make you a believer in the greatest mystery of all: Love with a capital "L".
"Martin Achatz knows what it is to be big and hairy and to express the animal inside us. To paraphrase the Zen koan, live as if you were already Bigfoot. If Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin Bell has his Dead Man poems, Michigan's Achatz has rendered poetical the great ape of the Northwoods, and he eloquently and determinedly immerses us in the dream, meanwhile paying homage to Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, and all the other wonderful monsters." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Waters and American Salvage
"Martin Achatz reimagines the legendary Bigfoot in his newest book, a funny and moving collection of poems that is playfully serious. Achatz melds cryptozoologic wonder with the heartrending stuff of the everyday world ... a fierce Sasquatch howl that illuminates and reveals the fragile state of our collective humanity." --W. Todd Kaneko, author of This Is How the Bone Sings
"I believe Martin Achatz intended these pages to impart joy (and other wonders) to those who read with an open paintbox at the ready, its colors so pure they demand that monster landscapes be captured and dimensioned within the nether worlds of dreams and the genius of second readings. A 5-star book without doubt." -- Sue Harrison, international bestselling author of The Midwife's Touch
Author of The Mysteries of the Rosary and a former U.P. Poet Laureate, Martin Achatz lives in Ishpeming, Michigan with his family. In his spare time, he chases comets and Bigfoot.
Duration - 1h 56m.
Author - Martin Achatz.
Narrator - Martin Achatz.
Published Date - Saturday, 04 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2024 Martin Achatz ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders is a compendium of natural and unnatural astonishment, anatomizing all those big, hairy monsters that haunt the human condition. Follow their footprints through these pages, and Martin Achatz may just make you a believer in the greatest mystery of all: Love with a capital "L". "Martin Achatz knows what it is to be big and hairy and to express the animal inside us. To paraphrase the Zen koan, live as if you were already Bigfoot. If Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin Bell has his Dead Man poems, Michigan's Achatz has rendered poetical the great ape of the Northwoods, and he eloquently and determinedly immerses us in the dream, meanwhile paying homage to Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, and all the other wonderful monsters." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Waters and American Salvage "Martin Achatz reimagines the legendary Bigfoot in his newest book, a funny and moving collection of poems that is playfully serious. Achatz melds cryptozoologic wonder with the heartrending stuff of the everyday world ... a fierce Sasquatch howl that illuminates and reveals the fragile state of our collective humanity." --W. Todd Kaneko, author of This Is How the Bone Sings "I believe Martin Achatz intended these pages to impart joy (and other wonders) to those who read with an open paintbox at the ready, its colors so pure they demand that monster landscapes be captured and dimensioned within the nether worlds of dreams and the genius of second readings. A 5-star book without doubt." -- Sue Harrison, international bestselling author of The Midwife's Touch Author of The Mysteries of the Rosary and a former U.P. Poet Laureate, Martin Achatz lives in Ishpeming, Michigan with his family. In his spare time, he chases comets and Bigfoot. Duration - 1h 56m. Author - Martin Achatz. Narrator - Martin Achatz. Published Date - Saturday, 04 January 2025. Copyright - © 2024 Martin Achatz ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
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Dedication
Duración:00:00:09
Tall and Hairy
Duración:00:00:37
A Question About Bigfoot
Duración:00:01:18
The Eighth Day, a Bigfoot Creation Story
Duración:00:01:29
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bigfoot
Duración:00:02:52
Bigfoot's Heart
Duración:00:01:10
Bigfoot Hungers
Duración:00:00:29
Field Guide for the North American Bigfoot
Duración:00:02:17
The Missing
Duración:00:02:23
Bigfoot Shadows
Duración:00:02:21
Bigfoot Visits My Father's Grave
Duración:00:02:33
Bigfoot and Jim Harrison Skinny-Dip in Morgan Pond on Father's Day
Duración:00:03:26
Bigfoot Remembers His Mother
Duración:00:02:23
Gaudete
Duración:00:01:48
Bigfoot and Nessie: A Love Story
Duración:00:02:23
Bigfoot Has Late Fees at the Carnegie Library
Duración:00:02:11
White-tailed Deer and Lady Bigfoot on the Banks of Au Sable River, Lake Superior Region, Michigan, 1903. Photograph by George Shiras
Duración:00:01:35
Lady Bigfoot Kept Him in Her Cave
Duración:00:01:51
Bigfoot Takes His Wife to Mt. Rushmore for Their Honeymoon
Duración:00:01:57
A Bruise the Shape of Bigfoot
Duración:00:01:13
Bigfoot Goes Trick-or-Treating
Duración:00:01:36
Bigfoot Multiple Choice Haibun
Duración:00:01:35
Bigfoot's New Year's Resolutions
Duración:00:01:41
Bigfoot Yoga
Duración:00:01:14
Slow Dancing With Bigfoot in Greenwich
Duración:00:02:58
Pablo Auditions Bigfoot to Replace the Minotaur
Duración:00:01:30
Frost and Bigfoot Duet in the Great Dismal Swamp
Duración:00:02:31
Bigfoot and Charlie Parker--Mardi Gras, 1950
Duración:00:01:51
A Good Hominid is Hard to Find
Duración:00:01:36
Perkins and Bigfoot Skip Stones at Eagle Pond
Duración:00:01:17
Bigfoot Meets a Homeless Man at Presque Isle
Duración:00:02:43
Bigfoot Tries to Fix His Daughter's Broken Heartbroken heart
Duración:00:01:52
Bigfoot Visits a Sick Friend
Duración:00:02:23
Bigfoot Gets Mistaken for John the Baptist at the Church of Corpus Christi
Duración:00:01:30
Bigfoot Celebrates His 251st Birthday
Duración:00:02:07
Furred and Winged and Scaled
Duración:00:00:35
Doe After a Blizzard
Duración:00:01:40
A Pig's Orgasm Lasts 30 Minutes
Duración:00:01:21
Call of the Yellow Dog Wild Woman
Duración:00:01:21
Blueberrying
Duración:00:00:47
Chipmunks See in Slow Motion
Duración:00:01:49
Portrait of the Virgin Mary as Skunk
Duración:00:01:02
Whitman and the Skunk
Duración:00:01:00
Stealing a Last Line from Keith Taylor
Duración:00:01:22
Night Canticle and Other Loose Change
Duración:00:01:26
One Dog
Duración:00:01:49
Butterflies Taste with Their Feet
Duración:00:01:39
A Duck's Quack Doesn't Echo
Duración:00:01:32
An Elephant Leap of Faith
Duración:00:02:24
Bodies of Water
Duración:00:00:48
Naming Things in Big Sur
Duración:00:01:54
Ode to Kurt's Ashes in McLane Creek
Duración:00:01:40
Catfish Have 27,000 Taste Buds
Duración:00:01:45
Ode to Tapioca
Duración:00:00:57
Koi
Duración:00:01:26
One Species of Jellyfish is Immortal
Duración:00:01:59
Starfish Have No Brains
Duración:00:01:19
Spring Choirs
Duración:00:02:03
The Ugliest Fish in North America
Duración:00:04:32
Coda
Duración:00:00:27
On Your 60th Birthday
Duración:00:01:58
Bigfoot Give Thanks
Duración:00:02:17
Bigfoot Blessing
Duración:00:02:03
Bigfoot Valediction
Duración:00:01:43
In Gratitude
Duración:00:02:16
About the Author
Duración:00:02:11
Ending Credits
Duración:00:00:36