Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain

Russell Thornton's latest collection of poems, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain, explores powerful, primary human relationships through images of two worlds: the natural and the urban industrial.Simple grass is the iron of an invisible forging within nature that involves the human creative consciousness. A scavenger alley crow is the universal creative spirit in brutal primordial disguise. A murderously violent father and son are integrated into a single new man who walks "e;bright as a song in the air."e; A young daughter flings up her arms to seagulls that "e;collect up the world, opening it like a door."e; An infant son fights the anger in him the death with the heaven in living flailing hands."e;Intensely personal, Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain reveals how essential human identity reinitiates human consciousness in a participatory universe.