Description
Poetry. "Before reading the poems in Mike Smith's remarkable new book, the reader must take a good long look at his opening note on method. Smith means and does just what he says in this note. I've seen these acts of Houdini-magic unfolding over the last several years, and I've published a number of them in Notre Dame Review. To watch Mike Smith load himself with chains and then escape with a kind of elegant grace is astonishing. The more ambitious poems in 'Anagrams of America'—the anagram of Pound's first Canto, for example, and the whole of 'Multiverse: A Bestiary'—are expressions of a weird and even troubling genius. I don't know of anything else quite like them anywhere."—John Matthias
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