Messenger : Poems
by
R. T. Smith
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0807126756
ISBN-13
9780807126752
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 2001
Print length
88 Pages
Weight
154 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 13.90 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A companion volume to his previous collection Trespasser and the second book of the trilogy Dreaming in Irish, Messenger continues R.T. Smith's exploration of the threshold between story and song.
A companion volume to his previous collection Trespasser and the second book of the trilogy Dreaming in Irish, Messenger continues R. T. Smith's exploration of the threshold between story and song. Employing a disciplined and echoing free verse, Smith touches the sources of emotion without losing his poems' extraordinary composure, offering coherence and order in service of the ecstatic note.
Binding the lyric to narrative, these poems move almost imperceptibly from delicate descriptions of the poet's native southern landscape to memories of a tender boyhood amid Scots-Irish relatives to the customs and politics of contemporary Ireland. They invoke Audubon, Bartram, Dickey, Poe, and Joyce to pursue the mythic patterns behind everyday circumstances and the joyful possibilities in work, music, and family life.
Smith weaves the language of Catholic faith with both American and Irish rural surroundings, providing the fuel for quiet allegories. He listens and observes, and seeks to bridge the chasm between his world and his words, exercising what he calls ""a desire old as cave paintings,/ the wish to entice some wild thing/ and make beauty local,/ to bring something graceful/ close to the language of home.
Binding the lyric to narrative, these poems move almost imperceptibly from delicate descriptions of the poet's native southern landscape to memories of a tender boyhood amid Scots-Irish relatives to the customs and politics of contemporary Ireland. They invoke Audubon, Bartram, Dickey, Poe, and Joyce to pursue the mythic patterns behind everyday circumstances and the joyful possibilities in work, music, and family life.
Smith weaves the language of Catholic faith with both American and Irish rural surroundings, providing the fuel for quiet allegories. He listens and observes, and seeks to bridge the chasm between his world and his words, exercising what he calls ""a desire old as cave paintings,/ the wish to entice some wild thing/ and make beauty local,/ to bring something graceful/ close to the language of home.
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