Quivering Land

What was the most famous revolution in the world in 2011? Of course the answer is the Egyptian Revolution, known as the 25th of January Revolution or the White Revolution. And yet there aren't any books about this great peaceful revolution. This is a real pity because millions of people, young and old, would love to read about this subject New Egypt or the Quiver Land was born after a long black era of Tyranny. How could this happen? What was the price of achieving this goal? How could the peaceful Quiverians perform their White Revolution? Details of feelings, actions and consequences of this revolution are included in an easy style of writing.

Roewan Crowe's compelling and haunting literary debut, Quivering Land, is a rather queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West. Written in a sparse style, this lonely, sometimes brutal book invites the reader on a powerful journey with Clem, Violet, and a dead girl in a red dress. Clem, a lone cowboy, caught in the inevitable violence of the Western, compulsively rides through ghost towns and Monument Valley. Violet is an artist who pulls dead bodies, guns, and memory into her studio, immersing herself in a creative process, seeking to understand the relationships among aggression, vulnerability and the imagination. Disrupting the story are the ghostly visitations of a dead child who travels the western landscape unsettling romanticized, filmic images of Monument Valley. Interspersed in the text are fragile, beautiful images painstakingly cut from paper, created by artist Paul Robles. This experimental long poem, a gritty feminist meditation on trauma, violence and the possibilities of art, is as powerful as a Smith and Wesson Schofield rifle.

V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.

Forced from a broken home by the ravages of the Great Depression, young Bob Coleman arrives at the rural farmstead of the Majors family. Bob remains on the Majors farm where he learns the values and ideals that sustain him through the many challenges of his life. Most prophetical among these lessons is that Bob's adoptive father, James Majors, tells him he believes in the ever present spirits of ancient Native Americans upon his land. The greatest test of Bob's faith and his most difficult challenge is resolved after a school is built upon the farmstead after the death of James Majors. Arrows summoned from the Quiver of Redemption settle the battle between the forces of good and evil raging within the halls of the schoolhouse. Bob Coleman alone recognizes the combatants and the ultimate victor. While observing the carnage from the battle upon the school grounds, Bob notices an owl perched high on a pine branch and he feels the presence of James Majors behind the piercing eyes of the beautiful bird.