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."
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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."
Imprint | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 2008 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
First published | 2009 |
Authors | Charlie Smith |
Dimensions | 218 x 163 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 96 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-06762-0 |
Barcode | 9780393067620 |
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LSN | 0-393-06762-9 |