100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do
A Memoir
by Kim Stafford
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Pub Date Sep 11 2012 | Archive Date Jun 03 2013
Description
Bret and Kim
Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford,
were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the
itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its
intermittent celebration of “talking recklessly,” there was a code of
silence about hard things: “Why tell what hurts?” As childhood pleasures
ebbed, this reticence took its toll on Bret, unable to reveal his
troubles. Against a backdrop of the 1960s — puritan in the summer of
love, pacifist in the Vietnam era — Bret became a casualty of his
interior war and took his life in 1988. 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do
casts spells in search of the lost brother: climbing the water tower to
stand naked under the moon, cowboys and Indians with real bullets,
breaking into church to play a serenade for God, struggling for love,
and making bail. In this book, through a brother’s devotions, the lost
saint teaches us about depression, the tender ancestry of violence, the
quest for harmonious relations, and finally the trick of joy.
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781595341365 |
PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 256 |