The Scare in the Crow

By Tammy Armstrong

As Tammy Armstrong rode horseback on a one-month sojourn in Iceland, up rose the ley lines that crosshatched the landscape -- ancient tracks rife with saga, myth, and human history. In this collection, her poems both respond to W.H. Auden's poetic travelogue, Letters from Iceland , and evoke her raw relationship to the native natural world of North America. In language that folds upon itself, chance sightings of wild creatures become a study of humanity before the animal that waits. In re-negotiating a space that includes other species and other life forms, Armstrong unbalances her perceptions, making her own space unfamiliar and finding new ways of conceiving of a less human-centred environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864926278
• ISBN13: 9780864926272
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"