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THOMAS RAIN CROWE Tuckaseegee, NC was born in 1949 and is a poet, translator, editor, publisher, recording artist and author of twelve books of original and translated works. During the 1970s he lived abroad in France, then returned to the U.S. to become editor of Beatitude magazine and press in San Francisco and one of the "Baby Beats" and where he was co-founder and Director of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival. In the 1980s, after returning to his boyhood home in North Carolina, he was a founding editor of Katuah Journal: A Bioregional Journal of the Southern Appalachians and founded New Native Press. In 1994 he founded Fern Hill Records (a recording label devoted exclusively to the collaboration of poetry and music). Almost immediately, he formed his spoken-word and music band The Boatrockers--who have performed widely in the Southeast and produced two CDs. In 1998 his books The Laugharne Poems (which was written at the Dylan Thomas Boat House in Laugharne, Wales during the summers of 1993 and 1995 with the permission of the Welsh government) was published in Wales by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.In the same year, his ground-breaking anthology of contemporary Celtic language poets Writing The Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) that includes poetry in Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, Cornish and Manx was published in the U.S., and his first volume of translations of the poems of the 14th century Persian poet Hafiz, In Wineseller’s Street, was released. As a translator he has translated the work of Yvan Goll, Guillevic, Hughes-Alain Dal, Marc Ichall and Hafiz. In 2002 a second volume of his translations of Hafiz (Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz) was published by Shambhala. For six years he was Editor-at-Large for the Asheville Poetry Review. His memoir in the style of Thoreau’s Walden based on four years of self-sufficient living in a wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina from 1979 to 1982 (Zoro’s Field) will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the spring of 2005. He currently resides in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where he writes features and columns on culture, community and the environment for the Smoky Mountain News. His literary archives have been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special Collections Library in Durham, North Carolina.
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Mathias de Breyne The Baby Beats & The 2nd San Francisco Renaissance Paperback: 250 pages (French & English) La main courante (France) / New Native Press (U.S.) A bi-lingual anthology published in France, edited and translated by French poet Mathias de Breyne, which looks back into the past and speaks for the present as well as predicts the future in relation to the 1970s 2nd San Francisco Renaissance--featuring the next generation of poets in the Beat tradition (the “Baby Beats”) alongside their Beat counterparts as they appeared in the pages of Beatitude and other northern California indie magazines. The exciting, if unheralded, Bay Area literary scene of the 1970s fully documented in pictures and poems with attached CD which includes readings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Bob Kaufman, Jack Hirschman, Jack Micheline, Cole Swensen, Ken Wainio, Thomas Rain Crowe and others.
TITLES BY THOMAS RAIN CROWE POETRY Learning To Dance (Tatlin Books) - 1986 [chapbook] Poems For Che Guevara’s Dream (Holocene Publications) - 1991 [chapbook] Deep Language (New Native Press) - 1992 [chapbook]
Water From The Moon (NNP) - 1995
TRANSLATIONS Why I Am A Monster (Hughes-Alain Dal) (NNP - 1991)
Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz (Shambhala) - 2001 10,000 Dawns (The Love Poems of Yvan & Claire Goll) (White Pine Press) - 2004 ANTHOLOGIES Writing The Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (The New Celtic Poetry) (NNP) - 1998 10 Great Neglected Poets of the 20th Century (APR) - 2000 The Baby Beats & The 2nd San Francisco Renaissance (La Courante Pub.; France) - 2005 RECORDINGS The Sound of Light (Holocene) - 1991 Live at the Green Door (Fern Hill Records) - 1995 The Perfect Work: Poems of Hafiz (Omega) - 2000 East/West : Live at Lipinsky (Thomas Rain Crowe & The Boatrockers) - 2005 MEMOIR Zoro’s Field: Life at the End of the Road (University of Georgia Press) - 2005 |
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