Heavy Lead Birdsong - by Ryler Dustin (Paperback)

About the Book

Ryler Dustins Heavy Lead Birdsong is a collection of love poems an old man plants orchards in his own chest, angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and a dangerous car ride through the dead of winter takes us to the Ice Age. Inspired by science and religion, grounded in subtle humor, these poems transcend modern political sorrows to celebrate the kind of human spirit that can save us.

Book Synopsis

Ryler Dustin's Heavy Lead Birdsong is a collection of love poems--an old man plants orchards in his own chest, angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and a dangerous car ride through the dead of winter takes us to the Ice Age. Inspired by science and religion, grounded in subtle humor, these poems transcend modern political sorrows to celebrate the kind of human spirit that can save us.

Review Quotes

For the first time I actually liked a poem.
- Dallas Quick, student, Ms. Nichol's Eighth Grade Class

I had my iPod in my pocket, but I just couldn't stop listening to you. You were better than a video game, and that's saying something especially considering I love to play video games so much. You are the greatest poet in the United States of America.
--Trent Miller, student, seventh grade

Ryler Dustin is hands down the most exciting young poet I have encountered in ten years of coast-to-coast travels through the poetry underground. Read this book; you'll find him telling you truths -- like all great poets -- that he has no right to know. -Jack McCarthy, "Good Night"

About the Author

Ryler Dustin is the author of the poetry collection Heavy Lead Birdsong from Write Bloody Publishing. He has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam and headlined at slam venues across the U.S. He has been awarded residencies from the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His poems appear in American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, and The Best of Iron Horse.A passionate educator, he has led an award-winning after-school poetry program in Houston, visited classrooms through Writers in the Schools, and facilitated community writing with InPrint. He currently teaches writing and literature at Albion College in Michigan.