Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

    “Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
    balanced upon the switchblades of that air
    and sang.”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    “He will not go,
    But wait through fish scale, shale dust, bone
    of hawk and marmot,
    caught leaves in ice,
    Til flung on a new net of atoms:”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.”
    —Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)