Publisher's Synopsis
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.
