The Language of Birds : Writing

Smart Billy

Smart Billy

A Book by The Language of Birds


An imagined internal narrative of a young biracial teen in Alaska who served as interpreter to the Tlinget tribes for John Muir and S. Hall Young in t..
Smart Billy: Prologue II "A Loss in Translation"

Smart Billy: Prologue II \"A Loss in Translat..

A Chapter by The Language of Birds


There is loss in translation, and at the heart of it, a wet and pulsing world. Fort Wrangel Alaska, Spring 1877: A frag..
Smart Billy: Prologue

Smart Billy: Prologue

A Chapter by The Language of Birds


PROLOGUE Witness a man, a 19th century trapper, violently shivering in a snow cave with his dog. The dog has shared her heat with the man, has po..