Are You Famous? Touring America with Alaska's Fiddling Poet by Ken Waldman

228 pages, ISBN: 978-0980208-10-8, $15.00.

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Ken Waldman has worked as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet since 1995, touring throughout North America in support of his poetry collections, performances, and CDs. This, his first book of prose, is a ramble through the highways of America as seen through the eyes of a troubadour. Part memoir, part travel notes, part artist how-to—a Blue Highways for the 21st century.

For more information on Ken or to invite him to perform, please visit his website.

The first in a series of anthologies on fertility and family, Labor Pains and Birth Stories is an anthology of personal birth stories, written by men and women who have given birth or assisted in a birth.

Ordinary men and women--mothers, fathers, relatives, friends--have written the essays collected here. All of the contributors have been transformed by their experiences, changed at some core level of their being, and this is what they try to define in their essays. For some, the experience was what it “should” be—without complication, a joyous event that caught them up in rapture. For others, the experience was everything it “shouldn’t” be—resulting in death, or mental health issues, or destruction. Yet all would agree with one of the essayists, who writes that watching his wife give birth helped him to understand not only her story—that is, who she is—but also her body, the parts of her, her gears—that is, what she is. This experience of giving birth extends and enlivens each person’s understanding of themselves and others, on both a physical and spiritual level.

The anthology was edited in the belief that stories about giving birth reach into the deepest place of what it means to be human, what it means to be spiritual, what it means to love and be loved.

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