num_pages: 94
description: Signed on colophon by the author and the illustrator. Numbered edition limited to 400 copies. This is a limited edition, with additional material, of an earlier publication. Seventy blank-verse poems by Ted Hughes, mostly on the life, deeds, and experiences of "Crow," who is a sort of spiritual observer/perpetrator/fellow sufferer in an unkind universe. The text is accompanied by twelve Leonard Baskin line drawings of the bird or bird-man "Crow." Hughes, an associate of Baskin, writing in another work A. Fern et Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin, a Catalogue...1948-1982, Little Brown &amp; Co., Boston, 1984 includes such illustrations among "his [Baskin's] most favored images, his most personal...the birds, the bird-man, the vatic figures...," all of which "come straight from the shaman's dream-journey, from his difficult take-off and flight, through obstacles and ordeals, to the source of renewal" op. cit., p.22 . We do not, however, find these particular illustrations listed in the
language: English
title: Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
titlecomplete: Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
genres: Fiction, Animals, Poetry, British Literature, English Literature, Birds, Horror, Literature, Classics, 20th Century
ratings_count: 4337
awards: awardedAt: 1641024000000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber and Faber