Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon (Fragments of a Lost Text), Stories and Poems

Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon, a work of creative non-fiction, is based on an actual event in which the protagonist, the bone man, rocks n a rocking chair for 89 hours and 55 minutes from Saturday morning to Wednesday morning, with only a 5 minute restroom break once every 3 hours. Of the 144 rockers who start the marathon, over 30 are hauled away to the hospital having had one kind of breakdown or another. But the book is far more than a documentary, it is a journey through the inner and outer landscapes of a young Kentucky wilderness rebel poet who has returned home for the first time since he left for good when he was 17. Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon is much more than a bildungsroman, a novel of becoming, it is the epic narrative of a place a people a time like no other, Kentucky July 1973. The bone man intentionally travels into unknown realms. Beaver Dam Rocking Chair Marathon is a play, a film, a complex literary poem prose saga, it is a masterpiece.

Ron Whitehead is poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. He is the author of 29 books 37 CD’s. He has edited over 3,000 titles, published over 2,000 titles, produced over 3,000 events round the world, presented over 60 scholarly papers at major colleges and universities, as well as presenting over 6,000 performances of his creative works with musicians round the planet. His works have been exhibited and are included in major museums, libraries, galleries, and private collections here there and everywhere. Dr. John Rocco, SUNY Maritime, nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature. Ron's works, of thousands published round the world, have been praised by many of the world's leading authors, musicians, artists, cultural figures.