About Crows

ISBN-13: 9780299291945 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 72 str.

Craig Blais

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About Crows is a comically understated title for a book whose long lines hold the rise and fall of Communism, an alternate history of Massachusetts, suburban mythopoetics, and the Beverly Hills of Korea. (And I'm only referencing titles here: the shiny tip of this poet's epic imagination.) These poems stretch seamlessly across far and local histories.

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Acknowledgments

 

I. The Lost Town

About Crows

Huffers

My Sister at the Airport

Robert Frost in the Slaughterhouse

Suburban Mythopoetics

An Alternate History of Enfield, Mass.

When I Opened the Anthology of Poets Oppressed

The Fall of Communism

The History of Hockey in My Town

Five Memories of Motion

 

II. The Beverly Hills of Korea (Or, My Life in the Love Motel)

The Rise of Communism

The Beverly Hills of Korea

All the Signs Read ?????

A River

The Mongolia Room

 

III. The Error Gallery

Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers I

Midwinter Rains over Montréal: A Video Installation

Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers II

Summertime (1943)

Scenes from a Village: A Triptych

Orizuru

After We Disembark and Spend the Day on the Island while the Ship's Repaired, I Board Alone, Flip through a Chinese Restaurant Calendar, and Write Three Poems to Express My Feelings

Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers III

The Madonna and Child with St. Anne

Self-Portrait in Shock

The Last Painting

 

IV. The Cult Poem

The Cult Poem

 

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