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Open Books: Event Archive
April 27, 2006 07:30 PM
TOM CRAWFORD & QUINTON DUVAL
The poems in Tom Crawford's latest collection, Wu Wei (Milkweed
Editions), offer a sweet sense of the cultural isolation that stemmed from
his time spent in China, and later from living among Native Americans in the
rural Northwest. Mr. Crawford handles alienation, and its relief,
unselfconsciousness, with sure language and a clear eye. Quinton Duval's new
book, Joe's Rain (Cedar House Books), presents deceptively simple poems
concerned with living fully in the growing shadows of late middle-age. His
joy of experience is bracing; when sharing wine, he writes, "have some more.
/ Let's not save a thing." This evening pairs poets whose work acknowledges
the gradual losses that accompany advancing age, and the strength of
character loss can exercise.
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