Jihad Bil Qalam

by Marc Beaudin

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99 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Marc Beaudin, an Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation artist-in-residence, is a poet, theatre artist and bookseller in Livingston, Montana, dubbed “America’s finest open-air asylum” for multiple reasons. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in High Desert Journal, Cutthroat, Whitefish Review, Ibis Head Review, and numerous other journals, and has been widely anthologized in publications fighting for environmental and social justice. He is a co-editor of the anthology Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Greater Yellowstone, which includes work by Jim Harrison, Terry Tempest Williams, Rick Bass and others. His latest book, Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, was called “a jazzy, freewheeling, rollicking road trip into the beating heart of the Eternal Now” by Montana Quarterly. A frequent performer of poetry and spoken word, Beaudin has worked and recorded with a variety of jazz and rock musicians at venues across the country, notably The Northwoods Improvisors, Billy Conway (of Morphine) and Bill Payne (of Little Feat). He believes the Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D is more powerful than all the guns, smokestacks and coal trains in the world.