Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow

Signed on colophon by the author and the illustrator. Numbered edition limited to 400 copies. This is a limited edition, with additional material, of an earlier publication. Seventy blank-verse poems by Ted Hughes, mostly on the life, deeds, and experiences of "Crow," who is a sort of spiritual observer/perpetrator/fellow sufferer in an unkind universe. The text is accompanied by twelve Leonard Baskin line drawings of the bird or bird-man "Crow." Hughes, an associate of Baskin, writing in another work A. Fern et al.: Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin, a Catalogue...1948-1982, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1984 includes such illustrations among "his [Baskin's] most favored images, his most personal...the birds, the bird-man, the vatic figures...," all of which "come straight from the shaman's dream-journey, from his difficult take-off and flight, through obstacles and ordeals, to the source of renewal" op. cit., p.22 . We do not, however, find these particular illustrations listed in the