An accomplished actor in more than 130 films, Coyote is an Emmy Award-winning narrator of over 200 documentaries and 17 audiobooks. He has written two best-selling memoirs, Sleeping Where I Fall and The Rainman's Third Cure, and contributed to other books and publications. Coyote is a politically engaged person who has championed a multitude of causes. He is also a songwriter, guitarist, singer and Buddhist priest. This is his first poetry collection. Coyote lives in northern California.
"Pete's first poetry collection is a knockout. It reveals the same
keen intelligence and wry perspective he showed in his two memoirs,
with an eloquent, unique style that lays bare the universal in the
deeply personal. He can add gifted poet to his already impressive
resume."
--Bonnie Raitt
"Peter Coyote's new book Tongue of a Crow is incandescent. At first
read, his poems are all energy--kinetic universes exploding or
imploding, line by line; transformation engines charged with
immediacy, sometimes edgy, sometimes elegiac: '[m]ixing his
mother's ashes / with birdseed, elbow-deep/in a galvanized pail, /
swishing the whispering / seed with ghostly flour, pollinating each
grain/with her smoky voice and pearls.' A Ferris
wheel turns at the center of this book, the Big Wheel, and you
sense the depth at the core, the apprehension of transience.
Utterly personal and specific, these poems channel the impermanence
in which we all live and die, not knowing why we love our
suffering, certain only that 'the world is burning.'"
--D. Nurkse
"Peter Coyote's poems are every bit as wonderful as his memoirs,
rich and lively, sweet and perplexed, full of sorrow and laughter,
love and lovers, soul and bodies, Zen and wild mother nature,
truth, hope, disappointment, resurrection; ie, Life with a capital
L."
--Anne Lamott
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