Bluebird: Poems

by James Crews

Overview

Bluebird is a wide-ranging and open-hearted chronicle of the poet's life on an organic farm with his husband in rural Vermont. Written with clarity and attention to the moments that make life memorable, Crews urges us in his newest collection "To live unbound by time/and mind—to grow, speak, touch and taste/at a pace that feels more real."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950584550
Publisher:	Green Writers Press
Publication date:	04/07/2020
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

James Crews' poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Christian Century, and The New Republic, and have been featured on Tracy K. Smith's The Slowdown and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry column. His first collection of poetry, The Book of What Stays, won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and received a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Citation. He is also the author of Telling My Father, winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize, and editor of the bestselling Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, also from Green Writers Press. He teaches at SUNY-Albany and leads Mindfulness & Writing workshops across the country.

Table of Contents

Part 1

Fireflies 3

The Blessing 4

Living Light 5

Tablet 6

Scrap of Paper 7

Rikpa 8

First Date, Hawk Mountain 9

Heat 10

Sauna 11

The Price 12

Annunciation on Rue St. Urbain 13

Winter Offering 14

The Present 15

Night Dweller 16

Leave No Trace 17

At Stratton Pond 18

Altars of Attention 19

Clearly 21

Ye Tang Che 21

Adoration 22

Here on Earth 23

Part 2

Ripples 27

Enough 28

Biblia Sacra 29

Practice 30

Long Distance 31

Light Preserves 32

Darkest Before Dawn 33

Kalokalo Volasiga 34

Time Capsule of the Early Twentieth Century 35

Bluebird 36

Gaps 37

The Open Field 39

Spring Ritual 40

Ordinary Hero 41

Neighbors 42

Kindness 43

Claim 44

Spotted Wing Drosophila 45

Orbweaver 46

Part 3

Meditation Retreat 49

Natural Silence 50

Beginner's Mind 51

Heart Song 52

Kintsugi 54

Down to Earth 55

Milkweed 56

Monarch 57

Cusp of Winter 58

Swinging Door 59

More 60

Acknowlegments 63