Wu Wei

Tom Crawford's words paint familiar landscapes -- Seattle's coastline, New York's public spaces, rural China, and Western mobile homes -- in a new light. In poems as humorous as they are revelatory, sea birds careen off cliff walls "Then back/to the water to consider/where they went wrong," nudes are spontaneously drawn in urban coffee shops, and the Bhagavad Gita sits on a shelf in a trailer home, holding up deodorant. Crawford's Eastern spirituality, tempered by working class pragmatism, transforms these narrative poems into memorable portraits of the everyday.Crawford, Tom is the author of 'Wu Wei ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781571314239 and ISBN 1571314237.