Bøger af Thomas Rain Crowe

A truly contemporary anthology of mostly living poets covering one hundred years of American poetry that comes from multiple strata, ethnic groups and literary persuasions from across the American landscape. A new and unique look at some of the USA's most important poets. A century's legacy.

This 19th century Romeo & Juliet story is set in a Shaker community in Kentucky in the mid-1800s during the antebellum Protestant Revival-up to and including the Civil War years--which is a very lively, exotically colorful and eccentric period of Shaker history known as the Era of Manifestation (referring to the manifestation of spirits). While this is not a "Shaker novel" (or genre "Christian fiction") or a standard "Romance novel," it is, rather, "Historical fiction" and uses the Kentucky Shaker community (based on the Shaker community of Pleasant Hill) as a backdrop to create the book's major conflict-which is that between the Shakers and their neighbors in the town of Herodsville. Asher, a young poet and the son of an evangelical Baptist preacher from Herodsville, falls in love with Kitt, a rare beauty and revered member of the celibate Shaker community of Pleasant Grove. When this covert love affair is discovered by Shaker elder Wilford Ranks, ("The Watcher"), it changes not only his life, but profoundly affects the lives and romance of the two young people he "watches" from his window in the wall of the Meeting House. The "window in the wall" is the ongoing metaphor for the events and conflicts which follow, which begin with The Watcher (Ranks) as a "Big Brother" figure through whose eyes we witness the spectacle(s) of Shaker life and its inevitable demise.

Wrap yourself in the boundless love of the Divine with  the mystical poetry of renowned Sufi saint Kabir, here brought to life for modern readers by acclaimed poet Thomas Rain Crowe​.“When you’ve come all this way to the ocean of happiness, Do not return home thirsty with an empty cup. Wake up! Here is some pure water, Drink as much as you can!”The enigmatic Indian mystical poet Kabir stands among the greatest spiritual thinkers of human history. At once a Sufi, Hindu, and unbounded disciple of the universal Divine, Kabir and his songs of union and ecstasy lead us beyond our preconceived biases about truth and reality—and invite us to see our life, through his eyes, as an ego-shattering and incomparably joyful dance with the Beloved.  This 65-poem collection of Kabir’s most rapturous spiritual songs, rendered into modern language by acclaimed poet and Sufi performing artist Thomas Rain Crowe, is brought to life in fresh, evocative language bursting with mystical power. Striking and profound, Crowe’s inspired and poetic adaptations offer a sumptuous taste of true reality—beyond boundaries and in joyful embrace of life and our world.

After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe's chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income.

Presents a collection of conversations with world-class jazz musicians and classical composers, featuring luminaries Philip Glass, Charles Lloyd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Steve Reich, Eugene Friesen, and Sathima Bea Benjamin. These in-depth, candid interviews focus not only on the music but also on the artists.