Messenger: Poems

by R.T. Smith

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807126756
• ISBN13: 9780807126752
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.0"