Project Description

Well G’day, this is Trevien Stanger here

And why I’m reaching out shall soon become clear

with a handful of rollicking verses

and a sackful of editing traverses

You’ll hear all about my upcoming year

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I’m hell-bent on taking my writing farther

I’m intent on working on it much harder

And to do this I must take 

Four weeks to write with no break

And that is why I’m launching this Kickstarter

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Kickstarter is a fundraising platform online

Through which I’m chasing your financial support so fine

To help me write a proper book

Of my stories at which you’ll want to look

And read by the wood-stove with a glass of wine

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For each amount you give a reward you shall recieve

But only if enough of you truly do believe

that my artistic abilities

and my ancient sensibilities 

Can call forth a living book to breathe

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A book to breathe of the wilds I’ve seen

Full of stories that seethe as they beam

Lush details of faraway lands

Fire-side tales of million-night stands

That shed off your mountains like a stream

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Also note that this is to be no digital ephemera

I seek real words etched in paper for your retinas

Give to you the magic of language tangible

Words to be read with fleshy mandibles

A book to behold by your mind’s living camera

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I’m writing a road novel based on my travels

Our American myths and  how they unravel

Where is home and happiness?

What is seen and what is missed?

I’m writing a road novel of pavement, moss, and gravel

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But my friends please try to comprehend

That I’m a young writer trying to begin

But in the weather of bills and rent

Under the clouds of student loans lent

I need your generous help to create the space to write in

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With your support I’m going to do a residency

Because un-interrupted writing pollinates my propensity

To climb Mount Memory higher

To harness the creative fire

To craft you a book of appropriate density

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One month far out in the Oregon wilds

At my friend’s grand place upriver some miles

In a yurt by the stream

Write, eat, write, dream

I’ll be writing intensely all the while

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Your funding will help me find all the tendrils

I’ve left for us in a stack of journals

Teasing out characters

Drawing out curvatures 

Of the visions I’ve seen of these worlds

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Be your own hero and follow your bliss

Such is the advice given but often missed

I’ve headed the wilds’ harsh shrieks

I’ve lived in hell and heaven for weeks

And the God of Experience has me convinced

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When our young set out on vision quest

The elders set down a profound request

Go first in silence

Learn self-resilience

And report back with your very best

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Joseph Campbell described the hero’s path one may burn

Across millennia, it reads departure, fulfillment, return

I leapt into the world’s beauty and anger

I wept in beauty and confronted danger

And I am truly ready to return

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To you my family, my friends, my community, 

Please believe me these words cut with acuity

I will honor your green gift

I will travel and live in thrift

And be thankful for you, in poetic perpetuity

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Expected Expenses

$800 - Offset the rent and bills of home

$500 - Travel/Food/Living 

$250 - Editor Fees

$250 - Graphic Design and Layout Fees 

$300 - Materials and Time for book production of handmade copies of "Scree" and quick production of the first draft of "2:20s" 

$100 - Cds, Shipping and correspondance cost

Total: $2,200

Any extra funding received will go directly to higher quality production of books and gifts