Poetry. "Written over a span of six years, the poems of Brian Lucas's LIGHT HOUSE operate in what musician Brain Eno calls 'the long now,' a vast span of human time which redraws the lines of social priorities, away from the pathological hyperactivity of a market-driven attention span toward compassion and long horizons.a critical retuning of the ear, mind and heart"--Brian Strang. "Brian Lucas's first book is also the document of an exilic voice, original in it's wandering, a book composed of spectral coils, knots, and spirals, a book of arabesque (that perfect synthesis of irony and enthusiasm), whose language is limitlessly defined as "an intentional science of ecstasy beyond the decay"--Andrew Jordan.

About the author: Bill Smith received a Bachelor of Arts from Towson University, studied law at the University of Maryland School of Law, and computer and information science at University of Maryland University College. He began his career in communications with Presentation of Washington, specializing in multi-image slide shows, and founded Telescript DC in 1990. His eco-fiction novel, Tanaki on the Shore, was published in 2006 by The Portal Press.