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Wu Wei: Poems
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Wu Wei: Poems
Contributors:
By (Author) Tom Crawford
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions
Imprint:
Milkweed Editions
Publication Date:
5th July 2006
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
811.54
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
96
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Weight:
155g
Description
Tom Crawford's words paint familiar landscapesSeattle's coastline, New York's public spaces, rural China, and Western mobile homesin a new light.
In poems as humorous as they are revelatory, sea birds careen off cliff walls "Then back/to the water to consider/where they went wrong," nudes are spontaneously drawn in urban coffee shops, and the Bhagavad Gita sits on a shelf in a trailer home, holding up deodorant. Crawfords Eastern spirituality, tempered by working-class pragmatism, transforms these narrative poems into memorable portraits of the everyday.
