Caging the Robin: Poetry

by Tom Crawford

In the words of Tess Gallagher, Crawford subscribes to the readers own ability to undergo metamorphosis—through poetry to become, for fleeting moments, like birds who are, through his re-imagining, capable of entering our very souls to build "secret nests". In the words of one of his "birds can enter you from any direction/ and a fly-through, even by the common sparrow/can take out the heart."

136 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2014

About the author

Tom Crawford grew up in California in the Kern Valley. After graduation from Sacramento Statue U. with a BA/MA in English, he taught for seven years English and poetry writing at Solano College in the Bay area. His first collection of poems was a chapbook entitled I Want to Say Listen (Ironwood Press). In 1986 he received his second National Endowment for the Arts award. He's lived and taught in both China and South Korea. In 2010, he was Poet and Scholar in Residence at Harbor View Hospital in Seattle.