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This stunning new collection from Kentucky Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead contains old favorites and new poems spanning thirty years of prodigious writing and performing history. “Ron Whitehead is a living legend, a man who is his dream. An uplifting and inspiring outlaw poet who never looks up or down to anyone, but in the eyes – with courage, compassion and dignity. The Great Blue Heron of Quasar Poetry is a real treasure box.”–Doris Kareva “To read The Great Blue Heron of Quasar Poetry is to allow yourself to be bifurcated, to exist, if for a moment, decades ago in the hollers of Kentucky, where a father comes home blackened by coal, and a mother kills hens in the yard, and it is to exist in the present which is in the process of becoming, of blossoming into potential futures, filled with love and passion while standing on the edge of a city where box stores loom at the edges of streets. In these poems, Ron Whitehead, sings songs where the Boneman dances, a murmuration of sparrows chases a hawk, and a fog of dreams is made concrete. These poems are a record of the changing landscape of Kentucky, of a quest for enlightenment, of a man’s love for art and family, and of a life lived fully. So come, gentle reader, and allow Ron Whitehead to sing his songs, to release his birds, to share with you this remarkable journey through time, and I promise you will revel in his visions.”— duncan b. barlow, author of The City Awake and A Dog Between Us