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& Fern Hill Records
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Featuring
Thomas Rain Crowe

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Cullowhee, North Carolina
28723 U.S.A.
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Literary Books, Broadsides, and Recordings

About New Native Press
A small press specializing in poetry, literary books, broadsides, and recordings. more info



Thomas Rain Crowe

About Thomas Rain Crowe
Western North Carolina poet, translator, editor, publisher, recording artist and author of twelve books of original and translated works. more info



Publications

Against Information
and other poems

Lane, John
(1995) $7.95

From the Back Cover:
"For any who might have doubted that the human brain is the most explosively articulate of expert systems or feared that the best minds of our re-generation are being devoured by the Internet, this is the howl of the 90s, a poetic rallying cry for humane technology." --Benjamin Dunlap

The first conscious collection of satirical poems from the Information Superhighway.

Paperback: 67 pages
ISBN: 1-883197-06-6


Anthems of
an Uncut Field

Truscott, Danielle
(1999) $9.95

Of English and Cornish descent, Danielle Truscott grew up in New England, England, and Italy. She attended Wesleyan University and Temple University and makes her living as a freelance writer and book editor. She currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

A first book of poems by a young woman writer who hails from the traditions of H.D. and Mina Loy. She is a more modern version of both, but uniquely her own voice.

Paperback: 88 pages
ISBN: xxxxxxxxxx

Automatic Antiquity
Wainio, Ken (2004) $12.95

Book of Rocks, The
Crowe, Thomas Rain $6


Celtic Blood:
Selected Poems 1968-1994
Daughtry, Philip
(1995) $10

Philip James Daughtry was born near Newcastle-upon- Tyne, England, in 1942. On his father's side, he is descended from legendary American outlaws Frank and Jesse James. He migrated to Canada in 1957, then to the United States where he has lived ever since. His previous books of poetry are The Stray Moon and Kid Nigredo. He currently lives in Santa Monica, California.

A direct descendent of Frank and Jesse James, Philip Daughtry is one of the only true Northumbrian Geordie poets writing in dialect today. Geordie and American poems from 1968 to 1994.

Paperback: xx pages
ISBN: xxxxxxxxxx

Deep Language
Crowe, Thomas Rain (1991) $5

I am what’s around me
Shull, Nate $6

Overpopulation
Crowe, Thomas Rain
(broadside) $1

Personified Street, The
Crowe, Thomas Rain $10

Pocket Poems
Misc. Authors
(broadside) $1

Saint in the Cellar, The
Kusumagraj $9.95

Seizures of
the Sun
McLachlan, Jimmy
(1996) $6

First poems from
a young prodigy.

Paperback: xx pages
ISBN: 1-883197-11-2

Seven-Headed
Sewing Machine, The

Ladik, Katlin $6

Starfuck (e-book - NOVEL)
Wainio, Ken $10

Two Lives
Wainio, Ken $5

Why I Am A Monster
Hughes-Alain, Dal $5

Writing The Wind:
A Celtic Resurgence
(The New Celtic Poetry
)
(ANTHOLOGY, 1998) $24.95

Recordings

Cigarette Papers, The (cassette)
Cambridge, Richard $8

Laugharne Poems, The (cassette)
Watkins, Nan $8

Laugharne Poems, The (CD)
Watkins, Nan $15

Live at Lipinsky Hall (CD)
TRC & The Boatrockers $13

Live at the Green Door (cassette)
VARIOUS ARTISTS $8

Perfect Work, The (cassette)
TRC & The Boatrockers $8.00

Perfect Work, The (CD)
TRC & The Boatrockers $15



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Thomas Rain Crowe
Thomas Rain Crowe, 2005


The Baby Beats & The 2nd San Francisco Renaissance

Mathias de Breyne

The Baby Beats & The 2nd San Francisco Renaissance

Paperback: 250 pages (French & English)
ISBN: 2-913919-24-3, $20E

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.



New Native Press presents

Automatic Antiquity
Wainio, Ken (2004)

Poems that represent the best of American surrealism and a perfect blending of East (Egypt and Turkey)
and West (Greece, Western Europe
and America)

Paperback: 65 pages / $12.95
ISBN: 1883197198

Ask your favorite local bookstore
to order a copy for you, today.



Zoro's Field
My Life in the
Appalachian Woods

Thomas Rain Crowe's memoir about a time spent living alone in a cabin in the woods along the Green River in WNC. The memoir, Zoro’s Field, now available from
University of Georgia Press.

A remarkable testimony to a life
of conscience lived close to the land.



Smoky Mountain News
February 16, 2005


Smoky Mountain News

Life before Zoro’s Field
From Graham County to San Francisco and beyond
For two years, readers of the Smoky Mountian News have followed monthly installments of Zoro’s Field, a book by Jackson County resident Thomas Crowe about his solo back-to-the-land mission, a calling he carried out in the late 1970s in a small cabin in the woods of Polk County... (
more)

Afterword (Chapter 25)


Interview with
Thomas Rain Crowe
from Nantahala Review, 2004

Diversity As the Spice of Life: A Conversation with Western North Carolina Poet Thomas Rain Crowe


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.


Select works by Thomas Rain Crowe


The Personified Street
New Native Press


The Laugharne Poems
Gwasg Carreg Gwalch


Hafiz: In
Wineseller's Street


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