Poetry. Moving freely through poetry's pictorial fragmentariness and literal fragments of prose, with a streaming, equanimous, nondiscriminatory referentiality, Corless-Smith proposes and confers with entities in "the janus-faced doorway" of antiquity and contemporaneity; inference and exposition; soul and body—the "experience and the coming-into-history of that experience." ENGLISH FRAGMENTS is the final volume in a trilogy of "alternate selves and alternate literary histories."

Author City: BOISE, ID USA

Martin Corless-Smith is the author of ENGLISH FRAGMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL, SWALLOWS, NOTA, COMPLETE TRAVELS, and Of Piscator, as well as several chapbooks. He was Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and holds an MFA in Fine Arts and Printmaking from SMU and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University at Utah. He is currently the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University.

Reviews and Other Links
One of Boston Review poetry editor Timothy Donnelly's six favorite poetry books of 2010
Micah Cavaleri @ Galatea Resurrects