Channeling William Carlos
Williams, Ed Dorn, Robert Grenier, Joanne Kyger and others on and within the
airwaves, McCrary has created a body of poems that snips and snaps, chuckles
and guffaws, tugs and strokes, kisses and bites. Steve Tills puts it this way:
“Jim has devoted his spirit and heart to pursuits decidedly antithetical to
self-aggrandizement. Quietly, he has followed a most courageous lineage of
others also both gentle and careful in their approach to telling the truth and
making it uniquely compelling. You’ll sometimes recognize that lineage when you
take up All That. You’ll frequently
marvel at the quiet, substantive authenticity McCrary has achieved in the
sometimes lonesome but always deeply communal turns his truly individuated,
unequivocally human poeming has taken.”
Or as K. Silem Mohammad puts
it: “Out of the wild Kansas plains comes a howling wind, and in that wind is a
howling wolf, and in that wolf is a howling lamb, and in that lamb is a Russian
doll with another Russion doll inside it, and inside that one another one, and
inside that one a plastic pill bottle because one of the dolls got broken, and
in that bottle one last Russian doll, and in that last doll another howling
wind–and here we go all over again. Somewhere in there, probably around the
first wind and the wolf, is the poetry of Jim McCrary, which is really really
really really good.”
All That
Including
interview excerpt with Tom Beckett
171 pp.
ISBN-13:
978-0-9798478-0-6
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