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“Ken’s story is...all our stories, collected and distilled by a roving poet/musician possessed of a clear eye and a big heart. Waldman is clearly in the tradition of Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey.” —Jim Clark, author of Handiwork and Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany and Jordan Professor of Southern Literature and Writer in Residence, Barton College, Wilson, NC “I’ve long admired Ken Waldman’s dedication as a traveling artist. In what he describes as an accidental life as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, he has mastered multiple arts to bring his eclectic mix of poetry, music, and teaching to schools and audiences across America. Blending inspiration with cautionary tale, this insightful memoir takes readers into the challenges and rewards of a resourceful, optimistic, and creative life.” —Nancy Lord, author of The Man Who Swam with Beavers and Beluga Days “Ken Waldman is a contemporary American troubadour—surely the greatest since Carl Sandburg, but you would better understand the evolving impact of his work by considering Bruce Springsteen, Ken Kesey, William Least Heat-Moon. Waldman is a poet of the wilds of Alaska and the bluest streets of the French Quarter, of the high plains and the Susquehanna bottoms, of New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, L.A., and the San Francisco Bay. Did I mention Kerouac? Indeed, Waldman’s Are You Famous? is the On The Road of our age.” —Robin Metz, Author of Unbidden Angel, awarded the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Award |
