{"title":"Mary Crow","description":"Mary Crow is the author of five collections of poetry and four translations including three from BOA Editions: \u003cem\u003eBorders\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), \u003cem\u003eI Have Tasted the Apple\u003c\/em\u003e (1996) and \u003cem\u003eEngravings Torn from Insomnia \u003c\/em\u003eby Olga Orozco\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2002) which she translated from the Spanish.  A Professor of English at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, Crow has received many writing awards including a poetry fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Creative Writing Award. She serves as the Poet Laureate of Colorado. For more information about Mary Crow, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.marycrow.org\/\" title=\"Visit Mary Crow's homepage\"\u003ewww.marycrowthepoet.com\u003c\/a\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"borders","title":"Borders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poetry of Mary Crow is as we would expect of an artist deeply troubled by her experiences. The writing is taut, lean with the struggle to persevere and become its own true cause; and by the grace and the power of her art, the poems in \u003cem\u003eBorders\u003c\/em\u003e are kept from vanishing into the pain itself, thereby making a voice and presence for herself that is the fulfillment of her search for self. In short, she is the quintessential artist who is made whole by the very processes of art. Let us welcome Mary Crow to the company of poets.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—David Ignatow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight of the Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eGlare, hot lights, relentless \u003cbr\u003egroan of traffic, legless beggar \u003cbr\u003ewhose monotonous voice \u003cbr\u003epursues me down the street: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeñorita, por favor, señorita... \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt breast level, two machine guns:\u003cbr\u003eblack eyes, deep and empty. \u003cbr\u003eEverything is so clean! \u003cbr\u003eNo droppings, only a chirping \u003cbr\u003efrom the top of a tree.\u003cbr\u003eFrom a distant street,\u003cbr\u003ethe dry plucking of a siren \u003cbr\u003etrills our taut nerves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":8418243717,"sku":"9780918526700","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/Borders.jpg?v=1784747682"},{"product_id":"engravings-torn-from-insomnia","title":"Engravings Torn from Insomnia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Olga Orozco has won almost every major literary award from her native Argentina and her work has been translated into fifteen languages, no single volume of her poetry exists in English—until now. Award-winning translator \/ Colorado Poet Laureate Mary Crow has chosen the finest of Orozco’s poems for this long-awaited Spanish-English bilingual collection, \u003cem\u003eEngravings Torn from Insomnia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe passed among you,\u003cbr\u003epeople kindly as the fire's warmth in a neighboring hut.\u003cbr\u003eBut what was your accent except a jagged dagger quivering\u003cbr\u003e     in the depth of his breast? He watched you pass,\u003cbr\u003edays drowsy as beasts in humble pastures.\u003cbr\u003eBut what was your peace except sand burning under his eyelids?\u003cbr\u003eFar away the wind blew leaving no cheeks salty.\u003cbr\u003eFar away a place exists for his shade beside the fresh shades\u003cbr\u003e     of his ancestors. \u003cbr\u003eFar away he will be the absent one less absent now.\u003cbr\u003eOh, dry your tears \u003cbr\u003ethat do not quench the thirst of the stranger.\u003cbr\u003eKeep your prayers:\u003cbr\u003ehe didn't ask for love or any other heavenly exile.\u003cbr\u003eAnd let earth lift up its lullabies like an insulted stepmother:\u003cbr\u003e\"I bear a heart as harsh and angry as the leaf of the fig tree.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802156229,"sku":"1-929918-30-5","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418388741,"sku":"1-929918-31-3","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_53.jpeg?v=1527683244"},{"product_id":"i-have-tasted-the-apple","title":"I Have Tasted the Apple","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a wild vulnerability in the poetry of Mary Crow that allows her to be both passionate and horrified. In \u003cem\u003eI Have Tasted The Apple\u003c\/em\u003e, Crow tells of her experiences traveling through South America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, territories marked by political upheaval and social unrest. Moreover, Crow's poems speak to the danger of a middle-aged woman traveling alone and to the dilemma of choosing flight or bearing witness. She challenges us to resist becoming anesthetized to the violence and suffering of people in other countries, and affirms that the human spirit can overcome adversity.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFault Finding \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Even now the ground is slowly shifting\u003cbr\u003e beneath your feet. Even now\u003cbr\u003e zones of weakness are building\u003cbr\u003e behind your back, ready to crack\u003cbr\u003e into fractures. Even now pressures\u003cbr\u003e may exceed the power of rocks\u003cbr\u003e to resist. Think of it:\u003cbr\u003e thousands of faults lace this region. \u003cbr\u003e You live inside a ring of fire\u003cbr\u003e where walls can loom up overnight.\u003cbr\u003e Forces in this landscape\u003cbr\u003e are trying to rearrange your world.\u003cbr\u003e You stand here feeling\u003cbr\u003e you can control nothing,\u003cbr\u003e at any second it is you\u003cbr\u003e who may be heaved up,\u003cbr\u003e and broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 1996 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: \u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-880238-32-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $20.00\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1996\u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-880238-33-0 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: January 1996\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802198597,"sku":"1880238330","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418568837,"sku":"1-880238-32-2","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/I_HAVE_TASTED.jpg?v=1527683278"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/mary_crow.jpg?v=1453994753","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/mary-crow.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}