Devotions

by Bruce Smith

Book Overview

In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226764354
• ISBN13: 9780226764351
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"