Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow - Hardcover

Hughes, Ted

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9780571047635: Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571047637 ISBN 13: 9780571047635

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1970

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Signed on colophon by the author and the illustrator. Numbered edition limited to 400 copies. This is a limited edition, with additional material, of an earlier publication. Seventy blank-verse poems by Ted Hughes, mostly on the life, deeds, and experiences of "Crow," who is a sort of spiritual observer/perpetrator/fellow sufferer in an unkind universe. The text is accompanied by twelve Leonard Baskin line drawings of the bird or bird-man "Crow." Hughes, an associate of Baskin, writing in another work A. Fern et al.: Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin, a Catalogue...1948-1982, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1984 includes such illustrations among "his [Baskin's] most favored images, his most personal...the birds, the bird-man, the vatic figures...," all of which "come straight from the shaman's dream-journey, from his difficult take-off and flight, through obstacles and ordeals, to the source of renewal" op. cit., p.22 . We do not, however, find these particular illustrations listed in the

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About the Author:

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children, including The Iron Man (1968). He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for both Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

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Apple Tragedy
The Battle Of Osfrontalis
A Bedtime Story
The Black Beast
A Childish Prank
Conjuring In Heaven
The Contender
Criminal Ballad
Crow Alights
Crow And Mama
Crow And Stone
Crow And The Birds
Crow And The Sea
Crow Blacker Than Ever
Crow Communes
Crow Frowns
Crow Goes Hunting
Crow Hears Fate Knock On The Door
Crow Improvises
Crow On The Beach
Crow Paints Himself Into A Chinese Mural
Crow Sickened
Crow Tries The Media
Crow Tyrannosaurus
Crow's Account Of St. George
Crow's Account Of The Battle
Crow's Battle Fury
Crow's Elephant Totem Song
Crow's Fall
Crow's First Lesson
Crow's Last Stand
Crow's Nerve Fails
Crow's Playmates
Crow's Song Of Himself
Crow's Theology
Crow's Undersong
Crow's Vanity
Crowego
Dawn's Rose
A Disaster
The Door
Examination At The Womb-door
Fragment Of An Ancient Tablet
Glimpse
A Grin
A Horrible Religious Error
In Laughter
A Kill
King Of Carrion
Lineage
Littleblood
The Lovepet
Lovesong
Magical Dangers
Notes For A Little Play
Oedipus Crow
Owl's Song
Revenge Fable
Robin Song
The Smile
Snake Hymn
Song For A Phallus
That Moment
Truth Kills Everybody
Two Eskimo Songs: 1: Fleeing From Eternity
Two Eskimo Songs: 2: How Water Began To Play
Two Legends: 1
Two Legends: 2
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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