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CROW GENESIS

CROW GENESIS

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ISBN: 979-8-9865715-9-1

Pub Date: Spring 2024

Pages: 84


By Thomas Mitchell


In Thomas Mitchell’s collection, Crow Genesis, 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.


A truly amazing collection of poems. This is the real stuff—poetry that is modest, resonant, true in detail and imagination. I am reminded of the honesty and luminous perception of one of our great poets, Peter Everwine. Thomas Mitchell’s insight and appreciation of the world around him, and our fragile connection to it—our brief passing here—is subtle, exact, and sings in a true and accessible voice that reveals an essential and hard won wisdom.

—Christopher Buckley, One Sky to the Next


    In his title poem “Crow Genesis,” Thomas Mitchell offers a birth story, a metamorphosis of a species that holds such fascination for us that we sense somehow we are reading about ourselves. This is the impact of all his poems. They take us on journeys across the American landscape, subtle narratives and lyrics that cause us to emerge changed, knowing that we “can’t turn away from the world” and, under his precise eye, don’t want to.

    —Albert Garcia, author of A Meal Like That


    The poems in Thomas Mitchell’s new poetry collection, Crow Genesis, engage the world around us with a photographer’s eye, a naturalist’s understanding and lexicon, and a humane and passionate heart. They offer (as in his description of the Pleiades) “a veritable kaleidoscope of light” that captures for us “the holiness of the moment, in all its solemnity.” These poems are startlingly awake and aware; through them we learn to gather the beauty and fragility of each fleeting, unpredictable, and confluent hour.

    —Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of Gatherer’s Alphabet


    Thomas Mitchell was born in New York and raised in California. He received an MA from California State University, Sacramento and an MFA from the University of Montana where he studied with Richard Hugo and Madeline DeFrees. He is the author of four books of poetry (The Way Summer Ends, Caribou, Where We Arrive, Crow Genesis). His poems have appeared in magazines around the country, and internationally including New England Review, Chicago Review, Quarterly West, High Window Review, Stand, New Orleans Review, Cloudbank, and New Letters. He lives on the coast in southern Oregon, and travels widely giving readings and presenting workshops. 

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