Patty Crane's poems and translations have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Massachusetts Review,West Branch, Blackbird, PEN Poetry Series, and New York Times Magazine. She lives in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

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Other poems on the web by Patty Crane:
"Something Flown"

About something flown:

"'Hope,' said Dickinson, 'is the thing with feathers.' Patty Crane's sequence seeks to embody this assertion, and follows in the tradition of grandly inquisitive lyric explorations such as Ammons' 'Corson's Inlet' and Williams' 'Spring and All.' Crane fixes a steady gaze on the shifting and too-often inscrutable patterns of the natural world—and always with the goal of transforming description into revelation. This is lyric poetry of the highest order, work of inscape and insight, work that dazzles and instructs."
—David Wojahn