The Blue Cat Walks the Earth - Softcover

F.D. Reeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956034101 ISBN 13: 9780956034106

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Blue Cat is a courteous, outspoken, well-read, somewhat randy anarchist cat ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes. He s a cross between Top Cat, Puss in Boots, Schrodinger s Cat and the Cat in the Hat. He s a trickster, a prankster, an illusionist and an illusion. And he s back. The Blue Cat Walks the Earth is the third book in which Frank Reeve has let the Blue Cat out of the bag. He s a couple of years older, but he s still the actor he was. The only way he can get people to listen is to pretend he s not saying what he is saying. Of course, he s telling the truth. And of course, you don t have to believe him. Nine lives out of ten, the truth is unbelievable. Designed for improv jazz accompaniment, this book comes with a CD of Frank reading these new poems with Don Davis on sax and percussion and Joe Deleault on piano.

About this title

About the Author

Frank Reeve is an award-winning American poet, novelist,short story writer, critic and translator. As a young man he drove combine-harvesters in the Midwest wheat fields, and worked as a longshoreman on the Hudson River docks. In 1961 he was a USSR Academy guest in Moscow and Leningrad, and in 1962 he served as Robert Frost s literary guide, translating for him when he met Nikita Khrushchev. He is emeritus professor at Wesleyan University. He has translated many Russian writers into English, including Turgenev, Akhmadulina, Griboyedov, Borshchagovsky and Naiman. His books of poetry include In the Silent Stones, The Blue Cat, Concrete Music, The Moon and Other Failures, The Urban Stampede, The Return of the Blue Cat and The Toy Soldier. He lives in Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956034101
• ISBN 13: 9780956034106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64