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Caw I try to hold my sleep against the dawn I sleep against the outside light where crows (nuns and Sergeants priests and colonels) conspire in the brightening yard calling me from play calling me from flight back through the pillow calling me from flight beyond Saigon,beyond Hanoi, and Seoul calling me from flight I fly high beyond the call cursing God for every shattered wall I sleep against the clarifying day against a plebiscite of murdered selves forgotten relatives and mean authorities bleeding friends parents and parishioners conspiring with a squad of crows to call me back again to call me down to call me back to call and call and call "There is nothing uncertain about the art of Harry Staley. Technically, his work is masterful. Yet technique, no matter how superb, is not enough. Ultimately, it is vision and commitment to it that separates pretenders from legitimate heirs. If this volume of collected poems is daunting in its iconography, its historicity, and its Joycean wordplay, its rewards for the persistent reader are clear: a deep compassion heightened into grace through the powerful medium of a pesky art called poetry." -- From the Introduction, "The Pesky Art of Harry

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Author

Harry C. Staley; George Drew

Publisher

Excelsior Editions/state University Of New York Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438438351

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities