Wu Wei: Poems

Tom Crawford's words paint familiar landscapes--Seattle's coastline, New York's public spaces, rural China, and Western mobile homes--in 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. Crawford's Eastern spirituality, tempered by working-class pragmatism, transforms these narrative poems into memorable portraits of the everyday.

Author: Tom Crawford
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/29/2006
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781571314239