Description
Poetry. "Abraham Smith carries greatness like a splinter in the lining of the heart. He carries it like a poison drunk up in infancy, a bone shard that traveled from a smashed rib or a flint of exploitation that was planted there by a bad friend or a wasted economic system. Yet music pours from Smith like blood, cheap wine, car-radio and bird song. Abe is an ecstatic, standing outside himself and singing to himself, the whole pulling-apart yet encapsulated pageant of Keats' Nightingale played out in the person of one poet."—Joyelle McSweeney
Author Bio
Abraham Smith hails from Ladysmith, Wisconsin. His poetry collections—via Action Books—are ASHAGALOMANCY (2015); ONLY JESUS COULD ICEFISH IN SUMMER (2014); HANK (2010); and WHIM MAN MAMMON (2007). His reading highlights include stints at the Academy of American Poets' Rooftop Reading Series and Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Smith winters as Instructor of English at University of Alabama; Smith summers as farmhand (Farmall tractor rider) on Hawks' Highland Farm.
Author City: TUSCALOOSA, AL USA