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Literary Publications by Many Names Press
Publisher Kate Hitt produces award-winning trade edition books for distribution worldwide.
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Single Woman Double Clutches:
A School Bus Driver's Life... Poetry, commentary and original photographs by letterpress printer and book artist Kate Hitt, who drove thousands of k-12 kids of many cultures in diverse environments every day for 14 years in her school bus. This colorful book portrays the skill, hard work and dedication of a seasoned public school bus driver, and the active hearts and minds of the student riders. Upper middle class white and privileged kids ride alongside immigrants and children of farmworkers on the school bus every day. Under the watchful eye of the driver, riding the schoolbus helps socialize children to accept diversity, teaches tolerance and ethical behavior, and fosters respect for each other, for their elders and the environment. Single Woman Double Clutches also documents the immigrant refugees who have crossed over the southern border to work in the fields and orchards of California, who try and make a new life in the US despite the racism, language barriers, poverty and many other challenges. The most egregious betrayals are the continued use of toxic pesticides around the schools, and the rogue political system that incarcerates and criminalizes adult and child immigrants alike, illegally imprisoning and deporting them, barring them from ever becoming U.S. citizens. Driving a bus in all weathers is crazy dangerous. Protecting tiny girls while managing back talking teenage boys is a miracle. Double clutching a rumbling yellow bus, an act of skill. The story, told in open and observant poems, reveals how Kate's daily journey with a busload of kids also uncovers the strength of the child at work in her own psyche. -Felicia Rice, Moving Parts Press
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