| A Crow's Dream Contributor(s): Valentine, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0982987862 ISBN-13: 9780982987865 Publisher: Oliver Arts and Open Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| LCCN: 2011942345 |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.30 lbs) 110 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Douglas Valentine's A Crow's Dream "there is / No dark side to / The planet anymore." Other mysteries are ominous: "How much of all that seems certain / Could vanish with a word?" The natural world is tangible to Valentine as he prunes trees or watches "ghostly columns of frozen mist arise" from the Contoocook River in winter. Yet all is not lyric: Marvis Flynn, protagonist of a long poem that takes up a quarter of the book, parodies the Lord's Prayer: "Give us this day our daily dread." Sinister characters abound. The villainous Cadillac Jack compares his prostitutes to cars and strikes a match "across her teeth." Love is uncertain, although it may redeem you; and, as in Ovid, characters who seem stable change into other forms-birds, perhaps. Sometimes Valentine channels Robert Frost, sometimes old ballads, sometimes the Surrealists. |