Looking Back
by James Crews • from The Book of What Stays • University of Nebraska Press
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James Crews
James Crews was the 2009 recipient of the Prairie Schooner Bernice Slote Award for Emerging Writers.
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The Book of What Stays
"When all is said, if not quite done, what stays with the reader are these bracing poems: sustenance for the undeniably long haul." (David Clewell)
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"Myself, I think poems ought to be action-packed, like old-time Westerns. Let the bad guys shoot it out with the Earp brothers. Let the cavalry thunder over the ridge! And if the good guys get killed or the troopers arrive too late, so much the better; that's called tragedy, which is what paid the bills at Shakespeare's house."
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