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Books by Thomas Rain Crowe






Rare Birds
Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Nan Watkins
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2008 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-110-1, ISBN: 1-60473-110-9

"Rare Birds is a collection of conversations with world-class jazz musicians and classical composers, featuring luminaries Philip Glass, Charles Lloyd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Steve Reich, Eugene Friesen, and Sathima Bea Benjamin. These in-depth, candid interviews focus not only on the music but also on the artists. The six interviews, conducted by poet and author Thomas Rain Crowe and musician Nan Watkins, delve into the creative process, ind ..."






The Inner Trees
Selected Poems of Yvan Goll
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Yvan Goll
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2019 by White Pine Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-945680-25-0, ISBN: 1-945680-25-3

""Goll was in the avant-garde of various literary scenes. A central figure in the German world of Dada and Expressionism in Berlin; a founder alongside Eulard and Apollinaire of the French Surrealist movement in Paris; friend and collaborator with Picasso, Leger, Dali, Braque, Chagall, Tanguy and James Joyce; playwright and precursor to Ionesco’s “Theatre of the Absurd,” and Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty”; the celebrated editor of Hemisph ..."






Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved(1st Edition)
100 Poems of Hafiz
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Shirazi Hafiz, Thomas Crowe Hafiz
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2001 by Shambhala
ISBN-13: 978-1-57062-853-5, ISBN: 1-57062-853-X

"The Persian Sufi poet Hafiz (1326–1390) is a towering figure in Islamic literature—and in spiritual attainment as well. Known for his profound mystical wisdom combined with a sublime sensuousness, Hafiz was the supreme master of a poetic form known as the ghazal (pronounced "guzzle"), an ode or song consisting of rhymed couplets celebrating divine love. In this selection of his poems, wine and the intoxication it brings are the image t ..."






Too Many People
An Eco-Tale for Children
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 28 Pages, Published 2016 by New Native Press 2016-10-29
ISBN-13: 978-1-883197-48-3, ISBN: 1-883197-48-1

"This book focuses on the issue of Overpopulation--both local and global--and is seen through the eyes of a young boy who has grown up on a rural farm and is visiting the city with his mother for the first time."






Learning To Dance
Selected Love Poems 1975-2015
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2015 by New Native Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-883197-46-9, ISBN: 1-883197-46-5

"Poetry. This unique collection of love poems from the heart and soul of Thomas Crowe that were written to various lovers over a forty year span of the author's adult life is reflective of not only his romantic passion, but his sensitivity and ability to dovetail those romantic passions with natural and supernatural imagery, sometimes surreal, sometimes stunning. At a time in American literary history when love poems seem out of vogue, C ..."






Zoro's Field(Reprint)
My Life in the Appalachian Woods
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Christopher Camuto, John Lane
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2862-1, ISBN: 0-8203-2862-6

"After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe s chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income. It is a "Walden" for today, paced to nature s rhythms and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a conscious ..."






Recovering a Sense of the Sacred
Conversations with Thomas Berry
by Carolyn W. Toben, Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2012 by Timberlake Earth Sanctuary Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9883928-0-9, ISBN: 0-9883928-0-1

"Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry is a thoughtful and poignant memoir by Carolyn W. Toben recounting her spiritual journey with renowned scholar, author and cultural historian, Thomas Berry. For ten years, Carolyn spent many hours in deep discussions with Thomas Berry about his transformational thinking for healing the human-earth relationship through recovery of a sense of the sacred. This book is based ..."






Firsts
A Young Man's Journey Into the World of Women
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2015 by New Native Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-883197-44-5, ISBN: 1-883197-44-9

"Fiction. In FIRSTS, Thomas Crowe writes in the long-standing German literary genre of the Bildungsroman (education through experience). In this linked-stories, coming-of-age book of auto-biographical fiction, we see and hear echoes of great writers in this tradition, such as Goethe, Joyce, Novalis, Dickens and Thomas Mann. Crowe's "girls" are what has formed him, and we follow him from place to place, room to room in these sensitive and ..."






THE WAKE UP MAN
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Hardcover, Published 2011 by Grateful Steps Publishing House
ISBN-13: 978-1-935130-39-0, ISBN: 1-935130-39-0






In Wineseller's Street
Renderings of Hafez
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 1998 by Ibex Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-936347-67-7, ISBN: 0-936347-67-8

"Poetry. IN WINESELLER'S STREET is about hope. About a world seen through eyes that don't idolize individualism and separation. It reflects the human potential of living in a world of harmony and grace. No poet and no tradition does this better than Hafez. During a time of international political and religious chaos and violence, perhaps no other work is more essential to our survival and recovery. Here, Hafez is accessible, and in his a ..."






Zoro's Field(1st Edition)
My Life in the Appalachian Woods
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Christopher Camuto
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2734-1, ISBN: 0-8203-2734-4

"After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe's chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income. It is a Walden for today, paced to nature's rhythms and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously ..."






10,000 Dawns(1st Edition)
The Love Poems of Claire and Yvan Goll (Companions for the Journey)
by Yvan Goll, Claire Goll, Nan Watkins, Thomas Rain Crowe, Marc Chagall
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2004 by White Pine Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-893996-27-4, ISBN: 1-893996-27-1

"Published in France in 1951 and appearing here for the first time in exquisite English translations that capture the poignancy of the originals, this volume also reproduces the eight drawing by Marc Chagall that appeared in the original, many of them of the poets themselves. The poems move back and forth between the two poets, creating an intimate yet universal conversation between two people who knew they had found their soulmate.“Unli ..."






Radiogenesis
Poems 1986 - 2006
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 2007 by Main Street Rag
ISBN-13: 978-1-59948-082-4, ISBN: 1-59948-082-4






A House of Girls
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2007 by Wind Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-1-893239-68-5, ISBN: 1-893239-68-3

"Love can be at the same time both fleeting and forever. A House of Girls is a collection of stories which have dwelled for years in the heart of Thomas Rain Crowe -- poignant love stories with an unusual twist. As one reader remarked, "a twist of the heart.""






Writing Work(1st Edition)
Writers on Working-Class Writing (Working Lives Series)
by David Shevin, Will Percy, Scott Russell Sanders, Jean Trounstine, Curt Johnson, Bob Fox, Arthur Clements, Paul Christensen, Thomas Rain Crowe, Wayne Rapp, Helen Ruggieri, Bruce Springsteen, Janet Zandy, Larry Smith, Karen Kovacik, Joe Mackall, Edwina Pendarvis
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1999 by Bottom Dog Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-933087-52-1, ISBN: 0-933087-52-7

"Essays. "This book is about perspectives, in many ways challenging stereotypical views of working-class culture and art with the authentic accounts of those who live and work there... The conflict between what is said and what we know, what we hear about our culture and what we experience creates a tension that many seek to remedy through expression. We found the prime motivator of most working-class writing is the drive to bridge ..."






The Watcher
(Like Sweet Bells Jangled: a Novel in Three Acts)
by Thomas Rain Crowe
250 Pages, Published 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-883197-43-8, ISBN: 1-883197-43-0

"Based on scenes and scenerios from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and the real history of the Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, The Watcher focuses on the paradoxical world of the Shakers in the fictional enclave of Pleasant Grove ..."






Elemental South(4th Edition)
An Anthology of Southern Nature Writing
by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, James Kilgo, Franklin Burroughs, Bill Belleville, Jan Deblieu, Janisse Ray, Christopher Camuto, John Lane, Rick Bass, Susan Cerulean, Thomas Rain Crowe, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Melissa Walker Heidari, Thomas Crowe
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2689-4, ISBN: 0-8203-2689-5

"Nature writers know that to be fully human is to be engaged with our natural surroundings. Elemental South is a gathering of works by some of the region's best nature writers―people who can coax from words the mysteries of our place in the landscape and the human relationship to wildness.Arranged by theme according to the basic elements by which many cultures on earth interpret ―earth, air, fire, water―the writings consider our actual a ..."






The End of Eden(1st Edition)
Writings of an Environmental Activist
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Robert Johnson
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2008 by Wind Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-893239-80-7, ISBN: 1-893239-80-2

"The essays of Thomas Rain Crowe combine with the stirring illustrations of Robert Johnson to produce a prophetic vision of the world in which we live -- a vision of what we have and what we stand to lose through our careless disregard for the Earth and its finite resources. Crowe shows us the means by which we may save ourselves and our planet."






Postcards from Peru
(Paperback)
by Thomas Rain Crowe
Paperback, 63 Pages, Published 2013 by New Native Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-883197-29-2, ISBN: 1-883197-29-5

"The collection of postcards and facing poems created a unique text, presented to the public here for the first time."






Crack Light
by Thomas Rain Crowe, Photographer-Simone Lipscomb
Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2011 by Wind Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-936138-25-8, ISBN: 1-936138-25-5

"Poems from North Carolina's Blue Ridge, with accompanying photographs by Simone Lipscomb."



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