Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer

by Abraham Smith

Overview

Poetry. "Abraham Smith carries greatness like a splinter in the lining of the heart. He carries it like a poison drunk up in infancy, a bone shard that traveled from a smashed rib or a flint of exploitation that was planted there by a bad friend or a wasted economic system. Yet music pours from Smith like blood, cheap wine, car-radio and bird song. Abe is an ecstatic, standing outside himself and singing to himself, the whole pulling- apart yet encapsulated pageant of Keats' Nightingale played out in the person of one poet."—Joyelle McSweeney

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780989804837
Publisher:	Action Books
Publication date:	03/01/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Abraham Smith hails from Ladysmith, Wisconsin. He is the author of three poetry collections published by Action Books, WHIM MAN MAMMON (2007), HANK (2010), and ONLY JESUS COULD ICEFISH IN SUMMER (2014). He teaches at the University of Alabama.