| Big Rigs, Elvis & the Grand Dragon
Wayne Among the contents of Big Rigs, Elvis & the Grand
Dragon Wayne are essays on hitchhiking across America with truckers; cowboys and
spirituality; the unavoidability of Elvis; the rambling life of 60’s folk music icon
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott; how it feels to be on the mailing list of the KKK; an
inside-the-flames look at fear and volunteer firefighting; a piece originally titled,
"Likkered Up Hookers Ain’t Nothin’ But A Heartache"; and several other
pieces linked by themes of movement and place.
REVIEWS/ARTICLES
Review
and profile in Chetek Alert
Review in Canada's Truck
News
BLURBS
Michael Perry exults in the power and elasticity of language. But not
just of language, of the human spirit as well. Whether exhuming Elvis or staring down a
convicted murderer, Perry's unerring, if bemused, eye paints all people as if their lives
were epiphanies, which of course they are.
- Bill Friskics-Warren, The Nashville Scene
"Michael Perry’s commentaries…on Elvis, the
seductions of summer, fighting fires in small towns, save-your-soul preachers, or anything
else, are fun, smart, clear, and filled with good sense. Writing like this is hard to do.
Perry makes it look easy."
- Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist (Algonquin Books, 1997)
The best writers take us in tow to experience fully what their
subjects experience and then ask, What do we make of this? Michael Perry is such a
writer…he guides us to confront meaning in seemingly mundane things. And, often, just
to laugh, clap our hands and surrender to mystery altogether…"
- Bill Hudgins, Road King Magazine
"Language dances across Perry’s pages, the clarity of
poetry swinging one last time with the tough love practiced by those devoted to a dying
art."
- Grant Alden, No Depression
"Michael Perry is like a sensitive, new-age Hemingway. He is
good."
- Karen Croft, Salon
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