An edition of Fate's kite (1995)

Fate's kite

poems, 1991-1995

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An edition of Fate's kite (1995)

Fate's kite

poems, 1991-1995

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In this stunningly wrought collection, Dave Smith presents a galaxy of souls searching for "something" through the dusty lens of a lost faith. If religion is the arena in which we engage ultimate meaning, then these are religious poems indeed, prayers and meditations of the cosmically disenfranchised looking for a sign among the detritus of a broken world: "Lord, admit/us, we lived here, almost happy, almost yours." But where, really, are we? And how - and why - did we get here?

Pulsing, carefully orchestrated, these thirteen-line poems are tightly wound miracles of compression, alive with texture and color, sharp with the raw flavors of sex, blood, and seawrack, ready to explode off the page.

Ranging from youth, all moonlight and speed and violent ecstasy, through the fierce disillusionment of middle age to the final decline, snagged on "memory's hook"; from the sun-shot desolation of the contemporary American South to the faded marmoreal glory of Europe - Smith forges a craggy metaphysics that stops just this side of despair, finding Delphic moments of affirmation of our kinship with the physical world.

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Language
English
Pages
104

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Fate's kite: poems, 1991-1995
1995, Louisiana State University Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
Baton Rouge

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.M5173 F38 1995, PS3569.M5173F38 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 104 p. ;
Number of pages
104

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL792232M
ISBN 10
0807120405, 0807120413
LCCN
95024788
OCLC/WorldCat
32922080
Library Thing
1547762
Goodreads
1577886
1537831

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