Before and After Poems

Name: Before and After Poems
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ISBN: 9780393315554

ISBN-10: 039331555X

ISBN-13: 9780393315554

Edition: N/A

Authors: Charlie Smith

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As both poet and novelist, Charlie Smith has been hailed as one of the most original voices on the literary scene today. The New York Times calls him "prodigiously talented", and Madison Smartt Bell describes him as "a visionary". This, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date. Before and After is a book of family poems. In the poet's own words: "They are a kind of affidavit. A sworn statement concerning events and consequences in the lives of a small group of bound together people. They repeat certain motifs, certain facts, as the mind does coming to grips with what haunts it. They hint of a golden time, a time lost, replaced by disaster, decay. Of being borne down by the…

Book details

List price: $11.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



The Family Plot


Money


The Sentinel


Defiance


Wisdom


The Voice


Bylaws


Agitation


The Missing Daughter


Fixed Position


Ruffians


The Distance


Clairvoyance


The Front Man


Strangers


The Business


Ransom


I Don't Want a Son


Home Lessons


The Essential Story


Togetherness


Conceit


Outpatient


Now, Since


The Small Sound the Night Makes


Appetite


The Answer


At Five in the Afternoon


The Queen of Winter


Two Men


Capitalism


The Day After This


The Gesture


Invention of the Land


Sons of Sons


My Mother Was Quick


Two Poems About the Children


There Is No Railroad Named Delight


Anticipation


Solo


The Grave


The Miniature City


Treasure