Crow Call

by Henson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780975348666
• ISBN10: 0975348663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary

These poems were written in response to the death of a friend: Buddy Gray, grassroots activist and co-founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, mysteriously shot by a former client a decade ago in Cincinnati. Some of them deal directly with Gray and his murder, while others address the nature of exploitation, poverty, and the destruction of the environment; homelessness and its effect on the spirit; and the sacrifice necessary to create a common voice.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. 7
Invocation	p. 11
Witness	p. 15
Poem of the Gurney	p. 17
Song of the Crows	p. 18
Song of the Bullet	p. 19
Song of Insanity	p. 20
Because	p. 21
The Song of Damage	p. 22
A Story of Ash	p. 23
Raven of Truth/Raven of Memory	p. 27
Song of the Cold	p. 28
The Mob of Crows	p. 30
When My Mother Died	p. 32
Song of Suddenness	p. 33
As the Crow Flies	p. 35
Blackness of the Crow	p. 37
Four Songs of Silence	p. 38
Six Short Songs of Smoke	p. 40
The Corpse of the Crow	p. 41
Awakening	p. 45
The Weighted Hour	p. 46
Nightfall	p. 48
A Trapped Voice	p. 49
Song of Wounds	p. 50
Washington Park, Cincinnati, Ohio	p. 51
The Chambers of the Mole	p. 53
Song of Drought	p. 54
That Day	p. 55
The Hunger of the Dead	p. 57
The Work of the Dead	p. 58
The Tower Will Not Answer	p. 61
A Woman Cursing	p. 62
Prostitute at Walnut and Liberty	p. 63
Song of Anger against the Lie	p. 65
Things which Are Small	p. 67
A Song of Wind	p. 69
Crow in the Wind	p. 71
Funeral March	p. 72
Voice of the Crows	p. 77
A Blessing	p. 78
The Study of Language	p. 80
Making a Voice	p. 81
Song of Virtues	p. 82
The Day	p. 83
What the Dead Tell Us	p. 85
A Teaching	p. 86
After a Dark Season	p. 87
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