Description
Poetry. "POCKET GUIDE TO ANOTHER EARTH offers a way out when the route planned veers off the map, when lives dissolve, when worlds fall apart. An experiment in breakdowns and discontinuations, this collection continues Mike Smith's role as a master of form and versification, building on and exploding the tradition that comes before him. I can't think of a single poet working today who crafts with so much tradition while simultaneously turning that tradition on its head and reinventing in ways that mean so much for the world we live in. POCKET GUIDE TO ANOTHER EARTH offers a piercing addition to Americana, one that haunts with its linguistical magic, imagistic wonders, and everyday nightmares. It was a pleasure to linger in these breakdowns and hidden treasures."—Jenny Boully
Author Bio
Mike Smith has published four collections of poetry, including POCKET GUIDE TO ANOTHER EARTH (Dos Madres Press, 2018), BYRON IN BAGHDAD (BlazeVOX books) and MULTIVERSE (BlazeVOX books). His translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust was published by Shearsman Books, and he is co-editor of the anthology, Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, published by Columbia University Press. His memoir, AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING (WTAW Press, 2017), won the Gold Medal for Essay/Creative Non-Fiction in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He lives with his family of seven deep in the Mississippi Delta.
Author City: CLEVELAND, MS USA