Background
Crews was born and raised in Waco, Texas.
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Noose--A Retrospective: 4 Decades
(poetry, incl collages by John Brandi)
poetry, incl collages by John Brandi
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Clock of Moss (Poetry of the West)
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Nolo contendere : new poems
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Patrocinio Barela: Taos Wood Carver
(From Introduction: "The work and person of Patrocinio Bar...)
From Introduction: "The work and person of Patrocinio Barela, a so-called primitive wood sculptor, have been a part of the Taos scene for many years. His large-massed cedar sculptures can be seen at the public library, galleries, hotels, and in many homes in northern New Mexico. He is a thin little man with a dark, lined face, his fine eyes giving a hint of his rich inner vision. Wearing the standard dress of the community, blue jeans and a soft jacket, he is seen often around the town plaza, peddling his latest work in a crumpled paper sack. He removes it and explains its meaning in poetic broken English to prospective buyers. Barela's carvings have come to the attention of many people beyond his own community. One is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Various other museums, including the San Francisco Museum and the Baltimore Museum, own his work. Several of his pieces, including a large 'carreta' pulled by a striding figure, are often displayed at the Museum of New Mexico. A large number are in private collections. Unschooled and unlettered, Barela began to carve wooden figures as a young man after repairing a broken religious santo -- the result, he says, of a strong desire to see it whole. Not only in the beginning, but throughout, his work is an evolvement of the work of the 'santero,' whose production is an old tradition of the Spanish-American people of New Mexico. However, Barela's work is not formalized as is that of the saint maker, his being a free art expression...."
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The Southern Temper (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from The Southern Temper Here the night streets ...)
Excerpt from The Southern Temper Here the night streets of Lafcadio Hearn in anguish. Hearn writing of the Creole, the black turning to brown and turning to golden, and thinking of a golden race in the Orient. Hearn dreaming in America of Japan and China. Saying in every line he ever wrote, Time is a concept dreamed up by a mad fool who never knew what life was. Race is a creed for fools. Hearn dream ing of Japan and China, dreaming of a golden race to come. Or there are the busy day streets, cluttered with traf fic and trade, and a young man walking up and down, rhapsodizing to himself on the sins of the city, the 81118 of modern times, the mistake of the freedom of the Negroes with their primitive rape-fiend minds. What of the age of consent, free silver, the women's fashions, and the Bible belt's hell-for-leather persecution of the church of Rome? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Southern Temper
(An influential early essay by poet and critic Judson Crews.)
An influential early essay by poet and critic Judson Crews.
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Judson Crews
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Baylor University.
Career
He first opened his Motive Bookshop and issued his first Motive Press publications in Waco. Crews was a frequent contributor to Poetry Magazine, among many other literary journals. Besides operating his bookshop and press, he worked in newspaper production, as a teacher (including as a lecturer at the University of Zambia, 1974–1978), and as a social worker and counselor, until his retirement.
He died on May 17, 2010 in Taos, New Mexico and is buried in Tres Orejas, New Mexico. Crews wrote and published under a number of pseudonyms, including Cerise Farallon, Willard Emory Betis, Trumbull Drachler, Tobi Macadams and Charley John Greasybear.
Although he denied it, many in his literary circle believe that "Mason Jordan Mason"—a widely published and anthologized African American poet of the 1950s and 60s, recognized by the likes of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Langston Hughes—was another of Crews"s carefully constructed literary personae. Crews lived with Miller briefly during his Big Sur, California days.
Much of his own output as an independent, small press publisher consisted of short-run, inexpensively produced literary chapbooks and magazines, making him a notable figure in the 1960s-70s movement known as the Mimeo Revolution.
Works
book
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Patrocinio Barela: Taos Wood Carver
(From Introduction: "The work and person of Patrocinio Bar...)
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The Southern Temper (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from The Southern Temper Here the night streets ...)
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The Southern Temper
(An influential early essay by poet and critic Judson Crews.)
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Noose--A Retrospective: 4 Decades
(poetry, incl collages by John Brandi)
- Noose a Retrospective 4 Decades Signed
- Clock of Moss (Poetry of the West)
- Nolo contendere : new poems
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Patrocinio Barela: Taos Wood Carver
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March 17, 2010 (aged 92) -
Nationality
United States