Against All Wounds

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Light blue front cover of Against All Wounds.

Part of the “Backpocket Poets” series from Trout Creek Press, this 4-inch by 5-inch pocket-sized chapbook lives up to its series name. Judson Crews is known as a poet, editor, small press publisher, and bookseller who ran the Motive Book Shop in Taos, New Mexico, a Southwestern hub for avant-garde poetry. Through his work as a bookseller and publisher, and in his own writing, Crews was an advocate for causes including freedom of sexual expression and anti-censorship.

Judson Crews. Against All Wounds. Parkdale, Oregon: Trout Creek Press, 1987.

Title page of Against All Wounds. The inside of the cover is a burnt orange.

Inside pages of Against All Wounds displays two poems titled "Chased by a creature great as the mind's" and "An expanse of emptiness looking much."

Inside pages of Against All Wounds displays poems titled "A warped returning. Worse than" and "A dancer caught off center, crying Mercy."

Back cover of Against All Wounds portrays a black-and-white photograph of poet Judson Crews wearing a newsboy cap and aviator sunglasses.