Born: 08/03/1924   Glennie , MI
Parents: Joseph Jerome Girard and Hazel B. Girard
Spouse: Virginia
Children: Giselle
Address(es):
Permanent :
1217 Pearce Street
Owosso , MI 48867
USA
Contact Information:
Phone : 517-725-7418
Website : http://www.circusesandsideshows.com/performers/marvingirard.html

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Makin' Circles With a Rope: the Lore of the Lasso Wizards - as Marv "Slim" Girard with photographs from the author's collection.	Non Fiction	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Marshall Jones Co.	1986
	Black Loam and Buttermilk: Down-Home Poems - With Hazel B. Girard (his mother); illustrations and photos by the authors.	Poetry	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press	1986
	Blow for Battens Crossing : A Backwood Odyssey - by Hazel B. Girard (his mother) ; photos. by the author ; poems by Marvin Girard.	Non Fiction , Biography , Michigan History , Poetry	Adult	Sterling Heights, MI : Glendon Pub.	1978
	A Giant Walked Among Them: Half-Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan and His Loggers - A collection of the author's original tales concerning life in the lumber camps with Paul Bunyan and his group of hand-picked jacks. by Hazel B. Girard (his mother) ; illus. by Marv Girard.	Fiction , Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : M. Jones Co.,	1977
	These, My Singing Words : a collection of poems	Poetry	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press	1976
	Rail Fences and Roosters: Poems and Almost Poems - With Hazel B. Girard (his mother). illustrated by Marv Girard.	Poetry	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press	1976

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "I've been writing along in my own poetic groove for years, feeling that my kind of words would somehow find an audience out there in that small world of poetry readers. I have always believed that being able to communicate was the real art of poetry--the ability to pattern simple language into something all people would understand. I employ the use of informal English in all of my writing. I have had a life long love affair with the idiom of the cowboy, the lumberjack, and the people of the circus, roustabouts and performers alike. I've written some of my western poems in common cowboy dialect and feel very much at home in that form. Although I have written a great deal of free verse, I still enjoy working the most traditional poetic forms. My poems cover a wide variety of subjects, but I am best known for my western and circus pieces. If they smack of authenticity, it is only because I spent a lot of years as a featured juggler and trick roper in circuses and wild west shows. I am writing about what I know best."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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