Description
- Kind: Paperback
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Avaliable: Yes
- Audio CD: No
- ISBN: 0975348663
Praise
In his invocation, the poet calls on the spirits of heroes and the artists who stand behind them:
Debs and Tubman, King and Neruda
Whitman, Lorca, and Florence Reece.
Tom McGrath and Joe Hill, I call
William Blake and Aunt Molly Jackson.
Echoes of their voices, as well as those of Tennyson, Vallejo, Ginsberg, and Dickinson, can be heard throughout the book. Weaving through them all, one encounters a pair of watchful crows, a corvine chorus announcing each section of the work. Crow Call can be read either as a meditation on injustice or an extended elegy in the tradition of “In Memoriam,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,” and “Kaddish.” Regardless of how it is read, it touches the heart.
Author
Michael Henson is the author of chapbook, The Tao Of Longing (Dos Madres 2005), Ransack, a novel, and A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind, a book of stories. His poems have been published in Threepenny Review, Red Crow Poetry Journal, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Merton Seasonal, Wind, and in the anthologies Smaller Than God: Poems of Spiritual Search, Old Wounds, New words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project and Blue Collar Review. He is the winner of the 2002 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. He is a frequent contributor to StreetVibes, the Cincinnati homeless newspaper. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife Elissa Pogue.
