Edge City chronicles my trials and tribulations, some tragic, some heartfelt, and some humorous, as I searched for what it means to be a human in this country and on this planet. Life's lessons are presented in journal form as I drift around the country as a migrant farm laborer, a worker in woolen mills and a tannery, farmhand, draftsman, and a troubadour at Mardi Gras, Key West, and up and down the Eastern seaboard. Edge City ultimately becomes a call to action as I become a father, home...

A volume of poetry from Linda M Crate that feels like she is taking back her soul. Witchy, Feminist, and standing there saying I am not allowing the world to break me. These verses seem to speak to that part of us that needs to hear that.

Shortlisted for the 2002 Pat Lowther Award Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts as laying a table, or driving a highway, or reassembling a torn photograph. In Crate's careful hands, the knife that cuts the vegetables for dinner can transform the blade-edge of a distant war. Her migratory poems slip ...

A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future."The seven of us, a diverse group of elders, have endured, loved, lost and celebrated life in our own ways. Now, we decided, we would write a production for the stage, voicing our different experiences and what we came to realize are similar concerns about the future of our families, our planet, its peoples and its incredible network of flora and fauna."

Shortlisted for the 2002 Pat Lowther Award Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts as laying a table, or driving a highway, or reassembling a torn photograph. In Crate's careful hands, the knife that cuts the vegetables for dinner can transform the blade-edge of a distant war. Her migratory poems slip ...

A volume of poetry from Linda M. Crate filled with Fantasy Faerie tale themes.

Joan Crate's much-anticipated third book of poetry is equal parts revision and reverie, offering a mid-life view of childhood influences and expectations that is stirring, startling, and wise. Deliciously invoking the iconic figure of Snow White, subUrban Legends considers what lies beyond youth and the trite promises of "happily ever after," transporting readers to a land of complexity and nuance from which few cultural officiados report.

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /Tekahionwake would perform her poems first in buckskin, then, after the intermission, in silk.

Phoenix is the boy next door, or so everyone believed. When an accident transcports him to Léeñovâ, Phoenix's true self emerges. Léeñovâ looks and feels, at times, like Earth but is not. Phoenix is determined to get back to Earth, but as time progresses and friendships blossom, he wonders would it be a good thing to return back to his home planet? There he has an aunt and uncle that resent him, and his only friend is his cousin Becky. Phoenix learns, however, that sometimes being a prince ...

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is directly affected by the forces of modernization and globalization. She details the severe environmental and historical factors that continue to challenge their survival, and shows how the multi...

This collection of poems speaks of rebirth, reincarnation, and lessons from the past as a means to a better future. For the author, this is through a past life discovered in a very vivid dream that had both awed and confused her.Within this dream, the author was visited by a strong, courageous woman-a samurai-who showed her how to listen to her past, learn from her mistakes, and inherit the future she deserves. The Onna-bugeisha (female martial artist) were female samurai. They wer...

Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker ...