"Jaunty, frank, and compelling, Carney shares his instructive story with generosity and insight." --Booklist "Carney will easily win sympathy for his life, in which he has persevered to show others the hard work of his salvation." --Kirkus Reviews "Thanks to Carney's long career as a poet, there are some truly beautiful, enthralling passages that make the book a real page turner." --LitReactor "Carney weaves beautiful imagery into each scene, pulling the reader down the rabbit hole with him. His voice is raw and honest, similar to his poetic voice if you've had the good sense to have listened to him read before. With a deft hand, Carney takes what could be a kaleidoscope of agony, a narrative too hard to absorb, and softens each blow with his gentle prose." --PANK Magazine "It seems impossible to me that a reader could fail to be gripped by Carney's straightforward, vulnerable voice, which is able to imbue the harrowing events of his life with beauty, humor, and deep meaning." --Hippocampus Magazine "A story of tremendous courage and creativity in overcoming." --Poet Victoria "Before he was a sex-addict-crackhead-boozer-porn-salesman sliding downward in the Dallas demimonde, Jason Carney was a poet, a lowlife who prized his thesaurus as much as his speed pipe...He made it out, and Starve the Vulture tells how he did it, how poetic ecstasy trumped sordid pleasure. Brisk, electric, and moving, his story recalls both Baudelaire's Intimate Journals and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress." --J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life "While everyone with a pen claims to have been to hell and back, Jason Carney crafts his own harrowing perdition with a singular voice that is brash, unflinching, and eerily poetic." --Patricia Smith, author of Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah "As Jason Carney takes himself from transgression to transcendence, he takes us with him. What starves the vulture will feed the reader." --Daphne Gottlieb, author of 15 Ways to Stay Alive The latest from Akashic's Kaylie Jones Books imprint. A lyrical, mesmerizing debut from Jason Carney who overcomes his own racism, homophobia, drug addiction, and harrowing brushes with death to find redemption and unlikely fame on the national performance poetry circuit. Woven into Carney's path to recovery is a powerful family story, depicting the roots of prejudice and dysfunction through several generations.

Starve the Vulture: A Memoir

Carney, Jason

Humor & Entertainment

Kaylie Jones Books

If you have passion and focus, and if you are willing to work hard, you can be whatever you want to be. Determination and grit are far more important than talent."\nExceptional success comes from your talent multiplied by your behavior.\n"Performance = Capability × Behavior." 
Everyone has dreams, but to achieve them, we need to stop competing with others and start competing with ourselves. 
That's the bold assertion from soccer coach Jason Carney, who has been involved in youth and professional sports for more than twenty-five years. In this goal-achieving guidebook, he explores how to: 
- get more out of yourself and players-be they athletes or employees; 
- work toward becoming the best version of yourself; 
- focus on the things you can control; 
- start thinking about "we" before "me." 
By sharing his experiences as a child, friend, father, husband, and mentor, the author provides insights on how to look at life differently as you start moving toward your dreams.

You versus Yourself: Stop competing with others. Start competing with yourself!

Sports & Outdoors

Coaching

Archway Publishing

To build a strong team, you must start with a strong foundation. But where to go from there? Every coach needs a blueprint she or he can follow to form a structurally sound coaching philosophy. The Soccer Coach's Blueprint has the plan all coaches need. This blueprint is geared toward making decisions. Coaches can use these ready-made methods to improve both themselves and the team. In this book, the reader will be encouraged to focus on the long-term goals of the coach and the players and to look at the bigger picture. If coaching isn't challenging, then nothing will improve. Everything coaches need to challenge themselves and to develop can be found in this book. They will be ready to step onto the field, full of confidence, and walk off the field knowing they are making a difference in their players' lives. Follow the guide presented in The Soccer Coach's Blueprint to build a strong team and sound playing philosophy.

The Soccer Coach's Blueprint: Build a Strong Team Culture to Create a Winning Environment

Soccer

Meyer & Meyer Media

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