Poetry. "In an era of overpolished workshop poems and vague, bloodless experiment, Abraham Smith's HANK risks a caterwauling quagmire both lyric and epic in scope, replete with 18 kinds of loneliness. A folk paean to Hank Williams, Sr., its excess is astonishing, its unpunctuated burble is propulsive, funny, unforgiving, and raw. HANK is an 'elegy for gravel' along the lost highway we've been hunting for. It belongs only to the future of American poetry."—Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Author Hometown: TUSCALOOSA, AL USA



About the author: Abraham Smith hails from Ladysmith, Wisconsin. His poetry collections are WHIM MAN MAMMON (Action Books, 2007) and HANK (Action Books, 2010). Last summer, he won Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match NYC; this summer, he will be milking sheep on Hawks' Highland Farm. He teaches at University of Alabama.

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