From the Inside Flap In the 101 years since Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird" was published, Carolyn Guinzio's Ozark Crows finally offers us the birds' point of view. In seventy visually dynamic poems of one page each, Guinzio employs an alphabet augmented by crows that are as much punctuation marks or imaginary letterforms as they are avian characters with speaking parts. Throughout Ozark Crows, poetic language swoops, glides, dives and ascends. The crows both speak this language and scatter it in flight. Attend carefully to the turning of its pages and you will feel the brush of wings.        --Buzz SpectorThe family of Ozark crows who give voice to Carolyn Guinzio's book is concerned, as you might expect, with the elements: wind, frost, field, sky, branch. Yet they also share emotional, existential, and political concerns with us, as in "The murder":  They call our minds criminal They call our crowds crimesWe carry the weight of our ancestors The play of textual and visual on the pages makes us feel both the strangeness of the crows and the commonality we share with them as breathing inhabitants of Earth, and eventually we feel that we know them as well as we do our fellow humans. This is a very special book, a transformative experience.             -Kathleen Ossip  About the Author Carolyn Guinzio is the author of five collections: Ozark Crows (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018), SPINE (Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, 2015), Spoke & Dark, (Red Hen, 2012) selected by Alice Quinn as winner of the "A Room Of Her Own/To The Lighthouse Prize", West Pullman, winner of the 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize, and Quarry (Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press, 2008).Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb, The Harvard Review, Agni, New American Writing, Blackbird, Entropy, Verse, Boston Review, and many other journals.