DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Crow Genesis

Thomas Mitchell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Lost Horse Press

Published:31st Jan '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Crow Genesis cover

In Thomas Mitchell's new collection, paper boats drift in and out of childhood, a red bicycle negotiates the dangerous edges of a neighborhood, voices travel on the wings of swallows. Crows transform in a strange metamorphosis, assume human characteristics and emotions, create their own litany, succeed and fail in love, bemoan the onset of old age. Through an ever-widening range of vision, Mitchell chooses not to withdraw from the world, but to engage with it. Again and again, he reels us in, grounds us in reality, the authentic, as in "Measuring Absence" when he acknowledges the misconception that I can recreate the night by using words. These poems emerge with a musicality, a precision, that offers a persuasive affirmation of what it means to know ourselves, and to recognize the magic that appears all around us.

ISBN: 9798986571591

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 272g

277 pages