by Ted Hughes
Hey Crow, With all your self-obsessed aloofness, your lack of empathy and whimsy, you're a misrepresentation of all crows. Yours, Pigeon Ah, well, it was only a matter of time before I crossed paths with Ted Hughes' work. Let's just say that just because something is clever, and Hughes' work...
Ted Hughes’ Crow was a mixed bag for me. Some poems went right over my head no matter how many times I would read them. Others read like pretentious claptrap. But then there were a handful that I enjoyed reading, like “Crow Goes Hunting”: Crow Decided to try words. He imagined some words for the...
This was the fourth book (adult) of poetry by Ted Hughes, and is easily the most bleak & disturbing. By ransacking the worlds folklore, the poet creates a figure that strides omnipresent through his own personal mythology, laying to waste all it perceives, including itself. Although this started as ...
Publisher's Note--Two Legends--Lineage--Examination at the Womb-door--A Kill--Crow and Mama--The Door--A Childish Prank--Crow's First Lesson--Crow Alights--That Moment--Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door--Crow Tyrannosaurus--Crow's Account of the Battle--The Black Beast--A Grin--Crow Communes--Crow's...
Publisher's Note--Two Legends--Lineage--Examination at the Womb-door--A Kill--Crow and Mama--The Door--A Childish Prank--Crow's First Lesson--Crow Alights--That Moment--Crow Hears Fate Knock on the Door--Crow Tyrannosaurus--Crow's Account of the Battle--The Black Beast--A Grin--Crow Communes--Crow's...
Strictly not-for-the-birds.
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