Bear, Coyote, Raven

By Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

A bear can be a person, though most prefer to be bears. Did a coyote ever lead you to a story?  Have you ever lost yourself in the blue-black eye of a raven?  Imagine three such creatures transitioning from people to animals and back, walking along a desert highway dressed in their finest three-piece suits: ribbon shirts, jeans, and mo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resolute Bear Press
• Release date: Dec 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9780998819563

Jason Grundstrom-Whitney

Jason Grundstrom-Whitney, is an adopted Bear Clan member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and a musician who plays various wind instruments for classical, jazz, rock, funk, country, blues, and rap. The band Osha Root recently produced a CD featuring Jason's music and poetry. His poetry has appeared in 3 Nations Anthology and in the Underground Writers Association's Anthology of Maine Poets. Bear, Coyote, Raven is his first full-length collection of his own poems. A graduate of the University of Southern Maine, Jason has spent a lifetime working on Native American Rights, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence survival, Hospice and end of life, the homeless, environment, and alternative medicine. He has worked as a Substance Abuse Counselor and a Specialist at the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Augusta, Maine.Jason studied with a variety of native teachers and also learned from many others while he hitch-hiked for two and a half across America and has written about these experiences. He is a father, grandfather, and husband, and has been in recovery for 37 years.

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