A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders
Martin Achatz
A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders is a compendium of natural and unnatural astonishment, anatomizing all those big, hairy monsters that haunt the human condition. Follow their footprints through these pages, and Martin Achatz may just make you a believer in the greatest mystery of all: Love with a capital "L".
"Martin Achatz knows what it is to be big and hairy and to express the animal inside us. To paraphrase the Zen koan, live as if you were already Bigfoot. If Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin Bell has his Dead Man poems, Michigan's Achatz has rendered poetical the great ape of the Northwoods, and he eloquently and determinedly immerses us in the dream, meanwhile paying homage to Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, and all the other wonderful monsters." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Waters and American Salvage
"Martin Achatz reimagines the legendary Bigfoot in his newest book, a funny and moving collection of poems that is playfully serious. Achatz melds cryptozoologic wonder with the heartrending stuff of the everyday world ... a fierce Sasquatch howl that illuminates and reveals the fragile state of our collective humanity." --W. Todd Kaneko, author of This Is How the Bone Sings
"I believe Martin Achatz intended these pages to impart joy (and other wonders) to those who read with an open paintbox at the ready, its colors so pure they demand that monster landscapes be captured and dimensioned within the nether worlds of dreams and the genius of second readings. A 5-star book without doubt." -- Sue Harrison, international bestselling author of The Midwife's Touch
Author of The Mysteries of the Rosary and a former U.P. Poet Laureate, Martin Achatz lives in Ishpeming, Michigan with his family. In his spare time, he chases comets and Bigfoot.
Duration - 1h 56m.
Author - Martin Achatz.
Narrator - Martin Achatz.
Published Date - Sunday, 12 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2024 Martin Achatz ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders is a compendium of natural and unnatural astonishment, anatomizing all those big, hairy monsters that haunt the human condition. Follow their footprints through these pages, and Martin Achatz may just make you a believer in the greatest mystery of all: Love with a capital "L". "Martin Achatz knows what it is to be big and hairy and to express the animal inside us. To paraphrase the Zen koan, live as if you were already Bigfoot. If Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin Bell has his Dead Man poems, Michigan's Achatz has rendered poetical the great ape of the Northwoods, and he eloquently and determinedly immerses us in the dream, meanwhile paying homage to Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, and all the other wonderful monsters." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Waters and American Salvage "Martin Achatz reimagines the legendary Bigfoot in his newest book, a funny and moving collection of poems that is playfully serious. Achatz melds cryptozoologic wonder with the heartrending stuff of the everyday world ... a fierce Sasquatch howl that illuminates and reveals the fragile state of our collective humanity." --W. Todd Kaneko, author of This Is How the Bone Sings "I believe Martin Achatz intended these pages to impart joy (and other wonders) to those who read with an open paintbox at the ready, its colors so pure they demand that monster landscapes be captured and dimensioned within the nether worlds of dreams and the genius of second readings. A 5-star book without doubt." -- Sue Harrison, international bestselling author of The Midwife's Touch Author of The Mysteries of the Rosary and a former U.P. Poet Laureate, Martin Achatz lives in Ishpeming, Michigan with his family. In his spare time, he chases comets and Bigfoot. Duration - 1h 56m. Author - Martin Achatz. Narrator - Martin Achatz. Published Date - Sunday, 12 January 2025. Copyright - © 2024 Martin Achatz ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
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Dedication
Duration:00:00:09
Tall and Hairy
Duration:00:00:37
A Question About Bigfoot
Duration:00:01:18
The Eighth Day, a Bigfoot Creation Story
Duration:00:01:29
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bigfoot
Duration:00:02:52
Bigfoot's Heart
Duration:00:01:10
Bigfoot Hungers
Duration:00:00:29
Field Guide for the North American Bigfoot
Duration:00:02:17
The Missing
Duration:00:02:23
Bigfoot Shadows
Duration:00:02:21
Bigfoot Visits My Father's Grave
Duration:00:02:33
Bigfoot and Jim Harrison Skinny-Dip in Morgan Pond on Father's Day
Duration:00:03:26
Bigfoot Remembers His Mother
Duration:00:02:23
Gaudete
Duration:00:01:48
Bigfoot and Nessie: A Love Story
Duration:00:02:23
Bigfoot Has Late Fees at the Carnegie Library
Duration:00:02:11
White-tailed Deer and Lady Bigfoot on the Banks of Au Sable River, Lake Superior Region, Michigan, 1903. Photograph by George Shiras
Duration:00:01:35
Lady Bigfoot Kept Him in Her Cave
Duration:00:01:51
Bigfoot Takes His Wife to Mt. Rushmore for Their Honeymoon
Duration:00:01:57
A Bruise the Shape of Bigfoot
Duration:00:01:13
Bigfoot Goes Trick-or-Treating
Duration:00:01:36
Bigfoot Multiple Choice Haibun
Duration:00:01:35
Bigfoot's New Year's Resolutions
Duration:00:01:41
Bigfoot Yoga
Duration:00:01:14
Slow Dancing With Bigfoot in Greenwich
Duration:00:02:58
Pablo Auditions Bigfoot to Replace the Minotaur
Duration:00:01:30
Frost and Bigfoot Duet in the Great Dismal Swamp
Duration:00:02:31
Bigfoot and Charlie Parker--Mardi Gras, 1950
Duration:00:01:51
A Good Hominid is Hard to Find
Duration:00:01:36
Perkins and Bigfoot Skip Stones at Eagle Pond
Duration:00:01:17
Bigfoot Meets a Homeless Man at Presque Isle
Duration:00:02:43
Bigfoot Tries to Fix His Daughter's Broken Heartbroken heart
Duration:00:01:52
Bigfoot Visits a Sick Friend
Duration:00:02:23
Bigfoot Gets Mistaken for John the Baptist at the Church of Corpus Christi
Duration:00:01:30
Bigfoot Celebrates His 251st Birthday
Duration:00:02:07
Furred and Winged and Scaled
Duration:00:00:35
Doe After a Blizzard
Duration:00:01:40
A Pig's Orgasm Lasts 30 Minutes
Duration:00:01:21
Call of the Yellow Dog Wild Woman
Duration:00:01:21
Blueberrying
Duration:00:00:47
Chipmunks See in Slow Motion
Duration:00:01:49
Portrait of the Virgin Mary as Skunk
Duration:00:01:02
Whitman and the Skunk
Duration:00:01:00
Stealing a Last Line from Keith Taylor
Duration:00:01:22
Night Canticle and Other Loose Change
Duration:00:01:26
One Dog
Duration:00:01:49
Butterflies Taste with Their Feet
Duration:00:01:39
A Duck's Quack Doesn't Echo
Duration:00:01:32
An Elephant Leap of Faith
Duration:00:02:24
Bodies of Water
Duration:00:00:48
Naming Things in Big Sur
Duration:00:01:54
Ode to Kurt's Ashes in McLane Creek
Duration:00:01:40
Catfish Have 27,000 Taste Buds
Duration:00:01:45
Ode to Tapioca
Duration:00:00:57
Koi
Duration:00:01:26
One Species of Jellyfish is Immortal
Duration:00:01:59
Starfish Have No Brains
Duration:00:01:19
Spring Choirs
Duration:00:02:03
The Ugliest Fish in North America
Duration:00:04:32
Coda
Duration:00:00:27
On Your 60th Birthday
Duration:00:01:58
Bigfoot Give Thanks
Duration:00:02:17
Bigfoot Blessing
Duration:00:02:03
Bigfoot Valediction
Duration:00:01:43
In Gratitude
Duration:00:02:16
About the Author
Duration:00:02:11
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:36