Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almost funny, story in which natural forces and creatures, mythic figures, even parts of the body, act out their special roles, each endowed with its own irrepressible life. With Crow, Hughes joins the select band of survivor-poets whose work is adequate to the destructive reality we inhabit'.
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Stark, disturbing, but strangely exhilarating,
This review is from: Crow (Paperback)
In this slim but powerful volume of poetry, Ted Hughes creates poems like bare bones, blood-blackened stones, jagged icicles, all that's defiant & frightened & forever struggling against a meaningless Universe & an often malevolent God. Crow is a figure of myth, a hungry, hardscrabble chaos of feathers & dark dreams -- sometimes a trickster, sometimes a victim, sometimes a guide, sometimes a Prometheus of sorts. He inhabits an utterly bleak world ... and yet, there's a tremendous energy & bare beauty to these poems. Crow is Death & also Life, setting himself against infinite forces, a battered symbol of soul & negation both. Not for every taste, of course, but recommended for those who view the pain & mystery of existence with an unblinking eye.
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One of the few Must Read poetry books,
This review is from: Crow (Paperback)
This small book, full of repetitions, ambiguities and contrasts may change the way you think about writing and reading forever. It holds a dark mystery as it plays back and forth against itself and forward with momentum. Possesses a deep, raw quality unlike any other book. I was so amazed by the sheer audacity and mystery of this writing that I read about 5 more Ted Hughes books. Sadly, none of them really grabbed me. I have reread this a few times and it has never lost its energy.
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Eerie, Dark, Without Emotion is Ted Hughes' Crow. This small book of poetry takes us on a journey into the Stark and Selfish World of Crow. Crow defies all; even God.
It is not irony that Hughes dedicated this book to the memory of Assia and Shura. At times it seems Crow is the personification of Hughes himself. I find Crow to be a very beautiful, albeit nihilistic book of verse.
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