Deed
Published on 1. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
94 pages
978-1-58729-619-2 (ISBN)
Description
A deed is a governmental conveyance, a power asserted by the written, for, as William Carlos Williams wrote to Robert Creeley: "the government can never be more than the government of the words." The question of ownership, of the words with which we define ourselves and each other, and of whose and what claims are legitimate is much at issue in Rod Smith's "Deed, " a lyric, ambitious, rebellious work thoroughly grounded in the New American tradition of poets such as John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58729-619-2 (9781587296192)
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Persons
Rod Smith is the author of nine other books of poems, including Music or Honesty, Poemes de l'Araignees, and In Memory of My Theories. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals and anthologies including the Baffler, The Gertrude Stein Awards, Java, New American Writing, Poetics Journal, and Shenandoah. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages the independent Bridge Street Books in Washington, D.C. Smith is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley.