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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The University of Washington Press’ Pacific Northwest Poetry Series has shepherded a gorgeous new collection of Craft’s poetry into being: Vagrants & Accidentals, which feels like a book that’s been bottled up for a decade, just waiting to be introduced to an unsuspecting world. The poetry in Vagrants is eager and obsessed with big ideas like evolution and the act of becoming. . . . Craft argues that without the eyes to see and the lips to speak and the fingers to write, the world may as well not have existed at all. On that same wavelength, a Seattle without Craft’s poetry in it would be a forgettable dot on a map. He breathes life into our world, as an editor, a publisher, and most definitely as a poet."
-- Paul Constant * Seattle Review of Books *
Table of ContentsPart One
1. Vagrants
2. Borders without Doctors
3. The Descent
4. Carousel
5. The Changeling
6. Among the Cypresses (23 Remedies)
7. After Caravaggio
8. Carbon Copy
9. Utilitarianism
10. Cycladic Head
11. Les Calanques
12. The Weir
13. Wilson’s Warbler
Part Two
1. Matinee
2. Untitled #10
3. Parents
4. The Beardsley Limner
5. Small Government
6. Flash Drive
7. For the Climbers
8. Skunk Cabbage
9. Not Waving but Growling
10. God: A Study
11. On a Friday
12. Finesse
Part Three
1. Transparency
2. Linear A
3. Persona Non Grata
4. On Turning 38 in Rome
5. New Volunteer at the Art Museum
6. Nisqually Delta
7. Lignum Vitae
8. Linear B
9. Carmen Saeculare
10. Parakeets in Rome
11. The Quagmire
12. Bivalve Lullaby
13. Low Hanging Fruit
Part Four
1. Old Paradox
2. Accidentals
3. Entanglement (Sombrero)
4. Core Sample
5. Therefore Wander
6. Entanglement (Satellite)
7. Pigeon Guillemots
8. The Break
9. House Finch in Bird Bath
10. An Illustrated Guide to Feathers
11. Hard Return
12. The Undertow
13. One Atmosphere
