Both a memorial and a call to awareness, these poems were written
in response to the death of a friend. Buddy Gray, a grassroots
activist and co-founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless,
was shot by a former client a decade ago in Cincinnati. Many
questions remain about the killing of this man that sparked a
funeral march of over two thousand mourners through the streets of
the city. Some of the poems deal directly with Gray and his murder,
while others take off in different directions: on the nature of
grief, poverty, and the environment; on homelessness and its effect
on the spirit; on sacrifice; and on the creation of a common voice.
In his invocation, the poet calls on the spirits of heroes and
the artists who stand behind them:
Debs and Tubman, King and Neruda
Whitman, Lorca, and Florence Reece.
Tom McGrath and Joe Hill, I call
William Blake and Aunt Molly Jackson.
Echoes of their voices, as well as those of Tennyson, Vallejo,
Ginsberg, and Dickinson, can be heard throughout the book. Weaving
through them all, one encounters a pair of watchful crows, a
corvine chorus announcing each section of the work. Crow Call can
be read either as a meditation on injustice or an extended elegy in
the tradition of "In Memoriam," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomed," and "Kaddish." Regardless of how it is read, it touches
the heart.
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