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Mary Crow is the author of five collections of poetry and four translations including three from BOA Editions: Borders (1989), I Have Tasted the Apple (1996) and Engravings Torn from Insomnia by Olga Orozco (2002) which she translated from the Spanish.  A Professor of English at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, Crow has received many writing awards including a poetry fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Creative Writing Award. She serves as the Poet Laureate of Colorado. For more information about Mary Crow, visit www.marycrowthepoet.com

Books by Mary Crow

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Chen Chen

Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be…

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Welcome Fall Book Bundlers! With this purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's current fall season along with a few…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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On the Winding Stair

On the Winding Stair, Joanna Howard’s first collection of stories, draws heavily on the clichés of mainstream fiction genres such as mystery and fantasy,…

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This Elegance

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (“sacred conversation”), a style of Renaissance…

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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

Signed copies available in limited quantities The interviews with major award-winning poet Li-Young Lee in Breaking the Alabaster Jar offer access to the poet's…

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Beast is a Wolf with Brown Fire

"The feeling here is 'urban'—a certain removal or distancing combined with keen awareness, the sense of the impersonal wash of night coming over the…

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Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death

Signed paperback and hardcover copies available in limited supplies Christopher Kennedy's poetry is funny, deadpan, self-effacing and revelatory in the way of a man…

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Engravings Torn from Insomnia

Although Olga Orozco has won almost every major literary award from her native Argentina and her work has been translated into fifteen languages, no…

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