Word Comix

Poems

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Charlie Smith

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Charlie Smith's "shimmering energy" (Mary Oliver) pushes against the barriers of imagination and the American language. Taking as his starting point such wide-ranging subjects as comic books, politics, romantic love, geology, newspapers, totalitarianism, the natural world, the classics, Paris, Miami Beach, and war, Charlie Smith has written freshly realized poems in which compassion and tough mindedness touch the deep core of our humanness. From "Abuses in the Big Hotels" The old man they watched six years straight do nothing yet died between shifts. He left a bloody shirt once, in Tenerife, and never went back for it. "I loved," the dictator says, "the way my mother's body moved when she strolled along holding herself in her arms. I have always loved the elegant sway, the curve like infinity's cul de sac, the seductive and unappeasable ..." and stops talking.

Author Biography:

Charlie Smith is the author of eight previous poetry collections, eight novels, and a book of novellas. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, among other honors. He lives in New York City.

Release date Australia

September 14th, 2010

Author

Charlie Smith

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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Dimensions

157x211x8

ISBN-13

9780393338195

Product ID

7416607

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