Looking up : poems, 2010-2022 /
Looking Up collects more than a decade of new poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon events, animals and people who prove to have a salutary significance to this poet, now approaching his eightieth year. He ponders the substantial changes wrought by retirement, which brings no expectati...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Looking Up collects more than a decade of new poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon events, animals and people who prove to have a salutary significance to this poet, now approaching his eightieth year. He ponders the substantial changes wrought by retirement, which brings no expectations, no obligations, no role beyond what one has left, which prompts the question what will you do now? Both the question and its answers are the subject of Looking Up, as Smith gives us poems as acts of attention, raptures, comedies, sardonic narratives, vignettes of grief and joy whose testimony shows that love is surely our core reality. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 111 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780807179185 0807179183 9780807178522 0807178527 |