LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david hedges

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david hedges

  • Prospects of Life After Birth
    David Hedges
    'Prospects of Life After Birth: Memoir in Poetry and Prose' chronicles the first 17 years in the life of Oregon poet David Hedges, from the high drama of his birth through one lively adventure after another. At six, he swings on a rope into the fiery blast from a locomotive’s smokestack. At seven, he carries water for circus elephants and earns a reserved seat under the Big Top...
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  • Capillary Action
    David Hedges
    Not every laugh is a belly laugh. There are chuckles and giggles as well as guffaws. But one thing is certain in this troubled world: Laughter beats the pants off gloom and doom. As poet David Hedges, a master rib-tickler, informs the reader in his title poem, 'Gravity is for the grave.'In the late 1940s, Hedges spent Saturday afternoons in the confines of the Blue Mouse Theatr...
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  • The Death of Democracy!
    David Hedges
    The 40 poems in 'The Death of Democracy' deal with the utter catastrophe the United States faces if We, the People allow an unhinged narcissist to rule America at a time when the survival of our species and our planet demands immediate, decisive, and rational action.Donald Trump admires Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and other ruthless despots. He ...
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  • The Zigzag Papers or Who Wants Wanda Wasted
    David Hedges
    A burlesque, a morality tale, a comedy of errors, a rib-tickling farce-any of these descriptions fits The Zigzag Papers. Our hero, Armand DuBois, a sous-chef at the Grand Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, on vacation in Zigzag, Oregon, is mistaken for the fictional Inspector François Poulet of Interpol and throws himself into solving the mystery of who is attempting to murder Wanda...
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  • Trump Über Alles
    David Hedges
    'Up with democracy! Down with Trump!'Thus ends the preface to Trump Über Alles: Rhymes for Trying Times. But rather than spewing invective, the book spills over with incisive wit and high humor. As David A. Horowitz, history professor at Portland State University, writes, 'If humor truly is the greatest weapon in times of crisis, David Hedges has provided invaluable assistance ...
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