Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3332615 in Books
• Published on: 1984-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 107 pages

Review
An Admonition Respection Reality
Almanach Du Printemps Vivarois
Among That Company
Anima
Bears At Raspberry Time
Bouquet In Dog Time
The Countryman's Reply
The Cowshed Blues
Elaboration
I Tell You For Several Years Of My Madness ...
In A Year Of Increasing Adversities
Invocation
Its Stronghold In Earth
The Line
A Little Old Funky Homeric Blues For Herm
Loneliness: An Outburst Of Hexasyllables
Marvin Mccabe
Mild Winter
The Mist Hour
Moon-set
The Mouse
My Dog Jock
My Meadow
Of Brook And Stone
On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam
Our Northern Kind
A Paragraph
Picking Up The Beer Cans
Pleynt
The Point
Popple
Regarding Chainsaws
Rummage
Song Of Two Crows
Song: So Often, So Long I Have Thought
The Sorrow Song
Spring Break-up
They Accuse Me Of Not Talking
Who Cares, Long As It's B-flat
The Winnower To The Winds
Words In A Certain Appropriate Mode
Words To A Young Revolutionist
Une Allee Du Luxembourg,
'tristesse'
Afternoon Of A Faun: Eclogue
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Customer Reviews

Solid Carruth.
Hayden Carruth, If You Call This Cry a Song (Countryman Press, 1983)

This collection, written over the course of thirty years, contains material published in magazines and then, for all intents and purposes, forgotten about. Carruth tells us in the introduction that when he stumbled upon it he recognized some old favorites, and thus the birth of this collection.

As seen in The Bird/Poem Book, Carruth is a far better writer than he is a selector of poetry. When he is good, he is very very good, and many of the poems here reflect Carruth doing what he does best. Some of them, on the other hand, are quite simply bombs. Too much politics, not enough poetry, the epidemic that has swept the world since Robert Service and likely before. The best material here is well worth reading, though, and very enjoyable. *** ½