The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees
AUTHOR
Peter Conners
The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees is a collection of poetry by Peter Conners that explores the intersections of nature, memory, and human experience. Through vivid imagery and keen observation, Conners examines the natural world—particularly its avian inhabitants—as a lens for understanding deeper truths about loss, family, and our place in the landscape. The poems balance dark humor with genuine tenderness, creating a voice that is both accessible and contemplatively rich. This collection showcases Conners' ability to find meaning in the everyday while confronting life's more profound questions with honesty and wit.
Reviews
"Conners' prose poem is not just a beautiful quirky moment that gives us a glimpse of the miraculous, but also an attempt to become a myth in itself. That Conners seems to get it all into one book is simply amazing. What can I say? A literary master."
—Ilya Kaminsky
"Conners writes with the playfulness and kinetic energy of an action painter. His spatters of images and fragmented narratives assume the condition of an exuberant non-sense that, in changing perspective, asserts a logic of its own."
—Stuart Dybek
Peter Conners is the author of ten books of poetry, nonfiction and fiction, including the prose poetry collections, Of Whiskey and Winter and The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees. He also edited the ground-breaking prose poetry/flash fiction anthology PP/FF: An Anthology, as well as an issue of American Book Review dedicated to prose poetry/flash fiction, and was founding editor of Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction. In his nonfiction books, he has documented music and countercultural communities in such books as Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead; JAMerica: The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene; Cornell ‘77: The Music, The Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall; and White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg. His books have been published by White Pine Press, Da Capo Press, City Lights, Cornell University Press, Starcherone Books, and Marick Press. He lives with his family in Rochester, NY where he works as Publisher and Executive Director of the award-winning independent publishing house BOA Editions. His website is: www.peterconners.com