Be Broken to Be Whole: New and Selected Poems by Tom Crawford
Tom Crawford’s previous collections of poems include The Names of Birds, star-reviewed on BookList, The Temple on Monday, recipient of the Foreword Book of the Year, and Lauds, which won the Oregon Book Award. He lectured and taught at colleges and universities throughout the western United States, taught for a year in the People’s Republic of China, and six years at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. Tom was a birder, a contemplative, an activist, and an enthusiast whose writing, infused with Eastern thought and a sense of mysticism, explores the natural world and our complex connection to it. He died in May 2018, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tom Crawford’s previous collections of poems include The Names of Birds, star-reviewed on BookList, The Temple on Monday, recipient of the Foreword Book of the Year, and Lauds, which won the Oregon Book Award. He lectured and taught at colleges and universities throughout the western United States, taught for a year in the People’s Republic of China, and six years at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. Tom was a birder, a contemplative, an activist, and an enthusiast whose writing, infused with Eastern thought and a sense of mysticism, explores the natural world and our complex connection to it. He died in May 2018, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tom Crawford’s previous collections of poems include The Names of Birds, star-reviewed on BookList, The Temple on Monday, recipient of the Foreword Book of the Year, and Lauds, which won the Oregon Book Award. He lectured and taught at colleges and universities throughout the western United States, taught for a year in the People’s Republic of China, and six years at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. Tom was a birder, a contemplative, an activist, and an enthusiast whose writing, infused with Eastern thought and a sense of mysticism, explores the natural world and our complex connection to it. He died in May 2018, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.