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THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON - KIRK W. JOHNSON From the author of The Feather Thief, the smash hit book about villainous flytying obsessives and a natural history heist, comes a new book The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast. Before writing The Feather Thief, US Army veteran Johnson founded The List Project, to help re-settle Iraqi allies, and his new book investigates tensions and deals with both refugees and fishing. Featuring xenophobic lies (that are all too common even today), the KKK, villains and heroes, The Fishermen and the Dragon dives into the ethnic collision between Vietnamese refugees who settled and began fishing in Galveston Bay in the 1980s and the racist locals who sought to chase them out. amazon.com You’ll love this if you enjoyed the pace and depth Johnson brought to The Feather Thief. REVISION OF A MAN - MATT SMYTHE There’s a good chance that the last time you read any poetry was back in high school. If that’s the case, it’s time to revisit the genre and, in our opinion, there’s no better poet to start with than Matt Smythe. Angler, hunter, veteran, lover, father, son, husband, Smythe, to put it bluntly, has lived. In Revision of a Man, he revisits and dissects with typical searing honesty and clarity the tropes of masculinity that have shaped his life and may well feature in yours too. As great poets do, with a simple turn of phrase or a moment glimpsed, Smythe’s poems can bring on real moments of emotion and connection. That’s the experience we had picking up and putting down Revision of a Man. Regardless of where you come from or the tack your life has taken, we wager this collection is going to have a similar impact on you. deadreckoningco.com
YOU’LL LOVE THIS IF THE VERY ACT OF BEING ON THE WATER CAN, AT TIMES, SEEM LIKE A POEM TO YOU.
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