"In CROW MILK you will find the unloved things, forgotten or unseen, returned to life, & celebrated in Mr. Agran's clear vision: crows, abandoned children, people living with AIDS, the tattooed & marked ones, even famous writers playing basketball in dreamtime. In this vision, the children have seen far too much but survive into artful singing. Often, it's the adults who choose not to see & suffer the consequences. Rick Agran is an adult who chooses clear vision, who cherishes all his eye beholds. In CROW MILK he holds it all up for us to see, with the same humor & sass as his crows, as if to say -- Don't you see how it all shines?"--Mekeel McBride. These poems reflect the concern of other Oyster River Press books where art often enhances content, conveying the human condition in our changing world. These include: THOUGHTS FOR THE FREE LIFE: LAO TSU TO THE PRESENT; PEACE IN EXILE, environmental poems by David Oates; & INTENSE EXPERIENCE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY THROUGH POETRY, with its intriguing poems by students coming to terms with early experience in their lives.