Kentucky Bound

"KENTUCKY BOUND: poems, stories & songs" is a masterful new collection of poetry and prose by internationally acclaimed Kentucky poet Ron Whitehead. The poems and stories bring to life the strange and beautiful people and events who and that helped shaped the young poet as he grew up on a wild nature Kentucky farm. Discover Ron Whitehead's bizarre, hilarious, joyful, sweet, harsh, tragic, loving roots. This rare glimpse into the famed Kentucky author's life will provoke laughter and tears. This collection is filled with poems and stories of faith, making do in hard times, surviving grief and loss, cutting tobacco and raising livestock on the farm, killing chickens, his sex education, the deaths of his father, grandfather, and other relatives, childhood adventures and--most importantly-- human strength and frailty. Ron Whitehead spins magical tales of joy, hope and love that warm hearts across the globe. "Ron Whitehead was born with the rare and unique ability to see the world afresh. And many a time we have taken a stroll in the Icelandic countryside I felt I was out there with Adam in Eden. His new book will give you something of the same feeling. Bless the man!" Olafur Gunnarsson, Iceland's leading novelist and advisor to the TV program The Vikings. "Ron Whitehead is a real visionary!" Lawrence Ferlinghetti, world renowned poet and publisher and Poet Laureate of San Francisco. "Ron Whitehead is a prophet. He is one of the world's greatest poets. What an inspiring honor to hear him read here at Granada Nicaragua's International Poetry Festival." Yevgeny Yevteshenko, legendary Russian poet. "Ron Whitehead was the hero of our Granada Nicaragua International Poetry Festival." Blanca Castellon, poet and Vice-President of Granada's Annual International Poetry Festival. "I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons. And his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics." Hunter S. Thompson "Of all America's living poets - and I mean all of them, even the academic ones - Ron Whitehead has the STRONGEST most PERSISTENT most POWERFUL VOICE of them all. You can hear his voice in every line. It is the voice of Blake and the voice of Yeats; it is the voice of Kerouac and the voice of Ginsberg. It is the rolling thunder of Bob Dylan. It is the voice of the poet." Dr. John Rocco, SUNY Maritime, James Joyce and Herman Melville scholar, is the author of many books. For years, he has reviewed Ron Whitehead's books and albums. A decade ago Dr. Rocco nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature. Songs & Poems from The KENTUCKY BOUND Concert (sonaBLAST! Records) includes the songs that played as soundtrack to Ron Whitehead's growing up years. The songs are performed by some of Kentucky's best singers and musicians. Plus Ron reads poems and stories from his new book.