Insomniac Sentinel

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A new poetry collection from one of America's most lyric and sonically interesting poets.Abraham Smith’s Insomniac Sentinel is a concatenation of sandhill cranes and their haunting deep time dinosaur barking. It is the croon of safety from the heart of Wisconsin. It is an aegis from the violence perpetuated on the young; that the young perpetuate; lurching and launching from tercets, those familiar island letting go sideways, the poems themselves as steady and desultory as sand and people and the places they abide. Insomniac Sentinel is a collision of meter, speed, and experience into auditory sensations that range from the elegiac to the ecstatic to the venomous in Smith’s nuanced considerations of blue-collar America. Mirroring the attentions of Midwest arrhythmia in the music of the sandhill cranes, Insomniac Sentinel resonates on temporal frequencies, waves ancient and contemporary, rolling from the throats of giants.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-23
Mått152 x 228 x 11 mm
Vikt210 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor128
FörlagCameron & Company Inc
ISBN9781936097449

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Abraham Smith's recent publications include Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023), Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022), and Bear Lite Inn (New Michigan Press,2020). Away from his desk, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns; their records It Never Ends (2023) and Break Your Heart (2020) were released on Mississippi's Dial Back Sound. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State.

“This message from the kinetic yet ghostly realm ofWisconsin that suffuses Abraham Smith’s Insomniac Sentinel alive with its ruralglossary, with its hidden waking clandestinely complex within seeming quotidiandisplay. It scripts a lingual fuse of heresy, that absorbs particulates ofhuman brewing, and what follows is a slow magnetic glow that suffuses the textnot unlike a susurrant under-ringing. Thus, it emits by complexity by this glowletting us know that verbal life continues to not only thrive but quietly eruptand cascade from regions that we seemingly thought to be inert, alwayspoetically aware of yielding circuitous treasure from what was thought to be aless than magnetic hamlet.” – WillAlexander, Pulitzer finalist forRefractive Africa and author of The Contortionist Whispers “you know, i am the giver/back of sound.” This bardic claimcould only be true of Abraham Smith, who sings open-throatedly the continuoussong of a crane lifting off the junkpile and into history’s storm. His songpushes through and around the language of working, of working bodies, bothhuman and inhuman, raising it all up, illuminating it, as in a manuscript,indicating what is precious, as if sound could be the one thing it is not, andshed light. That’s the sad note in this “gravy-to-cradle” threnody, this“lunged-up thud tender.” Reading Abraham Smith makes you ask the big questions,like, are our wings made of the shreds of where we came from? Does a bird flyon its wing, or on its song?” — JoyelleMcSweeney, author ofToxicon and Arachne “I can hear Abraham Smith’s voice intoning in hisbreathless and headlong fashion throughout his latest collection of poems. Theverses practically read themselves to me, accompanied by an insistent rhythm abackbeat for music that these poems conjure up.” –Charlie Parr, Smithsonian Folkways recordingartist and author of Last of the Better Days Ahead “Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keepingthe art form alive. He is patiently stoking the fires of imagination and hispersistence has kept the cinders of inspiration smoldering. It is a joy to readhis work and thrill to hear him read it in person.” – MargoPrice, Grammy nominee, Farm Aid board member, and author of MaybeWe’ll Make It