Crow : Faber Poetry - Ted Hughes

Crow

By: Ted Hughes

Paperback | 3 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Crow by Ted Hughes is a work of mythological power from one of the most important English poets of the twentieth century.

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge a work of impressive and unsettling force.

'English poetry has found a new hero and nobody will be able to read or write verse now without the black shape of Crow falling across the page.' - Peter Porter
Industry Reviews
In Ted Hughes' latest book of poems, Crow's existence is as indeterminate as his landscape, a galactic emptiness mysteriously flashing images of cities, beasts, demons, bullets, Biblical figures. It and he bring one very close to "nature red in tooth and claw" and the original business of eating or being eaten. Crow's lears and rages are elemental, and his cruelties as guiltless as an animal's; yet he uses numbers for vivisection and hunts with words, and deals cocksurely with Death and God (going so far as to eat a chunk of Him), whose attributes he shares. . . . A visceral understanding is the best one can hope for, and with the aid of chant-like forms and tom-tom rhythms it is relatively easy to achieve. That's not all that's visceral, however, as readers of Hughes' previous books well know. Some will certainly conclude that his highly praised "exuberantly horrid imagination" is not worth the blood it drips, but pro or con this latest example will be talked about and in no moderate terms. (Kirkus Reviews)

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