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The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees by Peter Conners

The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees

by Peter Conners

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  • Mar 2011, 96 pages
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Conners is an American cousin to Michaux, Ponge and Kharms of the European prose-poem tradition.

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"Starred Review. Prose poems, very short fiction, hard-to-classify compact meditations are enjoying some time in the sun now, and Conners's new pages approach the best in the lot." - Publishers Weekly

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Peter Conners

Peter Conners is author of White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg and the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead. His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. He is an editor and marketing director for BOA Editions.

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