Gentleman Practice - Softcover

Wakefield, Buddy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935904108 ISBN 13: 9781935904106

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Buddy Wakefield's third book, Gentleman Practice, documents the figurative contents of a man's body attempting to stand firm in the presence of all that is. It's a poetry book, from the perspective of a journal entry in the National Archives. The National Archives live in a building in Seattle behind barbed wire, directly next door to the Center for Spiritual Living. This is no accident. Gentleman Practice is a disarming de-haunting of accidents. There are no stunt doubles performing the honesty in this book. Head raised and victorious, he has crafted a translation of the human spirit on a small, practical patch, with a very fine tooth indeed. And, while many poetry books read like a thick epic series of sections, Gentleman Practice will no doubt rest in your hands like a well-oiled novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Buddy Wakefield is a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champ, has been featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and recently signed to Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records. He tours full time and considers annual Poetry Revival tours with Derrick Brown and Anis Mojgani, and separate tours with Ani DiFranco, to be the highlight of his career. Buddy has been a busker in Amsterdam, a lumberjack in Norway, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider and a triathlete.

Review:

"...one of my heroes, the miraculous Buddy Wakefield." -- Ani DiFranco, one of Buddy's heroes

"Buddy Wakefield is a honey badger. Lions will go completely out of their way to avoid a honey badger." -- Don Beck, Theory of Spiral Dynamics

"Buddy Wakefield is one of the most beloved and respected figures in the Poetry Slam scene... Earned through hard work, through his bright and beautiful spirit and by harnessing and sharpening a talent so boundless, audiences can't help but gasp." -- Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Everything is Everythin

About this edition

• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935904108
• ISBN 13: 9781935904106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152