Book details

  • Genre:humor
  • Sub-genre:Form / Essays
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:Blue Jay Tales
  • Series Number:6
  • Pages:76
  • eBook ISBN:9798317828240
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317828233

White Papers on Policy

you can hear blue jays hexalogically squawking in the background

By Channing Kury

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Overview

WHITE PAPERS ON POLICY is a collection of vignettes that discuss the reality of policy. The conversation is presented as a Gonzovation with a blue jay accent rather than academic gobbledygook.
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Description

Kurt Vonnegut's corpus literati, particularly Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), influenced me at some unconscious level of my psyche. I do not know how widely read his books are anymore. They were hugely popular among my contemporaries who, like me, came of age in the Sixties, a most peculiar time. I don't think that the young people of today have any idea what it was like to emerge in the Sixties with collegiate hallways plastered with numerous posters of assorted "ad hoc committees" for this and that, but primarily civil rights and peace. I am unaware of any book that adequately depicts that journey but I know, whatever else this book that you presently have in your hands may be, that this book does not address that quest except at a subliminal level. So, caveat emptor.
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About The Author

CHANNING KURY, Curmudgeon-in-Residence @ 15 and known as Poobah to the denizens of The Hamlet of Hobbits & Lilliputians on Long Island, New York, home of the Booboisie, is the author of Time in English then in French and then Clawed Back to Greenwich: pentalogical blue jay talk (2026), Blue Jay Tapestry: being here & there — notes on political ornithology — an aesthetic of jays (2025), More Blue Jay Tales: as if one tail on a jay were not enough — a natural year (2025), The C.A.W.: blue jays hector humans as being descendants rather than ascendants of the apes — the corvid campaign against war (2024), Wink and Flash: blue jays talk about the human condition (2024) as well as The Symphony of the Mind: a letter to my sons (2020) which is also available repackaged as The Madness of War.
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