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Adam Byrn Tritt

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in Brookline, Mass., The United States

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Children's Books, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Adam Byrn Tritt is an international bestselling and award winning poet, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, social activist, and humorist. Tritt is the author of The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation, several works of nonfiction, Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh Tradition; and his newest book, the delightful (and slightly disturbing) Bud the Spud.

Adam won the 2006 EPPIE Award for Poetry in an Anthology, and his first children's book, Bud the Spud, won the P&E Award for best Children's Book of 2012. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work in religious tolerance and for the creation of TurningPoint, a nonprofit program providing alternative medicine to low-income individuals. He continues ...more

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Adam Byrn Tritt's Blog

Food Comes To No Good

I want to be
Diaphanous. So thin
You don’t know I’m here.
Wraithlike, drawn like the
Wire, sounding only when
Plucked, brushed,
No voice of my own.

Wispy, vaporous.
Watery.

This business of
Food in the mouth
Comes to no good.
Disgusting (I tell myself)
But there I go again.

Walk a little more.
Lift a little more.
Did you eat that?
Why? Do something
About it. Get rid of it.
You don’t want that
In you.

But you will do i

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	Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh Tradition 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs from the Well: A Memoir of Love and Grief 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bud the Spud 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poets For Peace: A Collection 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oestra Anthology of Pagan Poetry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

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Making Connections: 864. THE PHOENIX AND THE DRAGON: POEMS OF THE ALCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION by Adam Byrn Tritt	24	72	Jul 30, 2013 02:31PM
Making Connections: 1196. - SONGS FROM THE WELL: A Memoir of Love and Grief by Adam Byrn Tritt	8	50	Aug 17, 2013 03:36PM
Making Connections: 1508. - SONGS FROM THE WELL: A Memoir of Love and Grief by Adam Byrn Tritt	3	22	Aug 25, 2013 05:06PM
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Making Connections: 1629. YOM KIPPUR AS MANIFEST IN AN APPROACHING DORSAL FIN by Adam Byrn Tritt	1	12	Aug 31, 2013 02:20PM
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“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...”
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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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“If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.”
― Stephen Fry, Paperweight

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