{"product_id":"about-crows-craig-blais-9780299291945","title":"About Crows","description":"An unsentimental and at times disquieting first collection, the poems of \u003ci\u003eAbout Crows\u003c\/i\u003e excavate self, family, race, location, sex, art, and religion to uncover the artifacts of a succession of traumas that the speaker does not always experience firsthand but carries with him to refashion into some new importance. This is a book of half-states, broken affiliations, and dislocation. The speaker leads the reader through the fragments of a flooded town that grows increasingly elusive the more one looks for it; through a succession of Seoul \"love motels\" that further displace the outsider to unclaimed margins transformed into sites of creative invention; through \"galleries\" of artwork, where movement, color, and image are renewed through ekphrasis; and through the world of the metatextual long poem \"The Cult Poem,\" where good and bad moral binaries tangle into a rat's nest of our best and worst spiritual ambitions. The poems and sequences of \u003ci\u003eAbout Crows\u003c\/i\u003e are marked by their artistic balance of the sublime and the profane, of polyphony, syntactical complexity, clashing images, cagey humor, and unsettling sincerity, all trying desperately to connect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Blais\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299291944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299291945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Florida Book Award - Gold Medal Winner","brand":"Craig Blais","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913579200767,"sku":"9780299291945","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_de73937f-b3eb-446f-b471-988580c1cf52.jpg?v=1680621167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/about-crows-craig-blais-9780299291945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}