The Annotated Murder of One

In The Annotated Murder of One, Jared Pearce takes lines, phrases, and words from the Counting Crows song, “A Murder of One,” and spins them into new directions and dimensions, exploring themes rooted in memory, history, the future, and the relationship between love and understanding. The poems are experiments in mixing song and poetry, lyrics and stories, memory and vision. Imagery, including birds, ghosts, flowers, jokes, a clutch of kids, and the “you” at its center, forms the weave that