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Almanac: Poems PDF

92 Pages·2013·0.4296875 MB·English
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by Austin Smith| 2013| 92 pages| 0.4296875| English

About Almanac: Poems

Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land.This collection also reflects on a long poetic apprenticeship. Smith’s father is a poet himself, and and “Almanac and ” is in part a meditation about the responsibility of the poet, especially the young poet, when it falls to him to speak for what is vanishing. To quote another Illinois poet, Thomas James, Smith has attempted in this book to write poems and “clear as the glass of wine on [his] father’s table every Christmas Eve. and ” By turns exhilarating and disquieting, this is a remarkable debut from a distinctive new voice in American poetry.______From and “Almanac and ” THE MUMMY IN THE FREEPORT ART MUSEUM and “Austin Smith and “Amongst the masterpieces of the small-town Picassos and Van Goghs and photographs of the rural poor and busts of dead Greeks or the molds of busts donated by the Art Institute of Chicago to this dying town’s little museum, there was a mummy, a real mummy, laid out in a dim-lit room by himself. I used to go to the museum just to visit him, a pharaoh who, expecting an afterlife of beautiful virgins and infinite food and all the riches and jewels he’d enjoyed in earthly life, must have wondered how the hell he’d ended up in Freeport, Illinois. And I used to go alone into that room and stand beside his sarcophagus and say, and “My friend, I’ve asked myself the same thing. and “

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Author:Austin Smith
Publication Year:2013
ISBN:9781400848034
Pages:92
Language:English
File Size:0.4296875
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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