The Flood & the Garden

By Dale Smith

Poetry. Working solidly in the tradition of Duncan, Williams, Creeley and Kerouac, Dale Smith offers a loosely assembled "daybook" which boldly mixes criticism, speculation, religious imagery, and the mundane. Smith, whose provocative views of contemporary poetry and poetics have already brought him a good amount of attention, moves seamlessly from brisk life-descriptions ("Coffee, cigarettes, herb. Sit on balcony, look out through clearing smog") to meditations on the two great Biblical sites of human transition: the garden (ignorance into knowledge) and the flood (vengence into promise). A substantial and pleasurable book by a fiery younger poet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889960071
• ISBN13: 9781889960074
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: First Intensity Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.