Word Comix
Poems
Published on 16. December 2008
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-393-06762-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 nothingyetdied between shifts. He left a bloody shirt once, inTenerife,and never went back for it. "I loved," the dictator says,"the way my mother's body moved when she strolledalongholding herself in her arms. I have always lovedthe elegant sway, the curve like infinity's cul de sac,the seductive and unappeasable ..." and stops talking.
From "Abuses in the Big Hotels"The old man they watched six years straight do nothingyetdied between shifts. He left a bloody shirt once, inTenerife,and never went back for it. "I loved," the dictator says,"the way my mother's body moved when she strolledalongholding herself in her arms. I have always lovedthe elegant sway, the curve like infinity's cul de sac,the seductive and unappeasable ..." and stops talking.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-06762-0 (9780393067620)
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Charlie Smith is the author of nine 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.