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I Am Your Lifeguard: New And Selected Poems
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For Pure, Raw Power Of Language, Nobody In His Generation Comes Close To Charlie Smith (David Bottoms).Drawing On Nine Previous Collections And Including Nearly Fifty New Poems, Charlie SmithS I Am Your Lifeguard Marks The Return Of One Of Our Most Honest And Unorthodox Poets. The Poems In This Collection Expose Jagged Truths: Some Are Love Letters; Some Focus Our Attention On Beauty We May Have Otherwise Missed, Stepped Over Or Cast Aside; Some Tell Us Secrets We May Want To Carry In A Locket; Some Are XRay Readings Of Our Hearts; Some Are LaughOutLoud Funny; Some Are Quiet Revelations. Each One Is A Prism Through Which Smith Refracts And Reflects The Experience Of Consciousness, Such As No Nonsense, In Which He Writes That I Came / Away From Myself / Unstuck / And A Sort Of Translucent Orderliness / Like A Small Herd Of Gazelles / Entered My Mind. The Cascade Of Imagery, Observation, And Revelation That Characterizes SmithS Work Imbues The Collection With An Expansive, Radical Compassion. It Remind[S] Us . . . We DonT Really Know What Beauty Is Until WeVe Looked Hard At The Horror That Throws Beauty Into Bright Relief (David Kirby, New York Times Book Review). I Am Your Lifeguard Is Prophetic And Prescient, Exquisitely Descriptive Of What It Means To Be Human, And Astonishingly Attentive To Beauty Found Even In The Most Derelict Places. This Collection Is A Stunning Retrospective From An AwardWinning Writer Of Scalding Aortal Brilliance (New York Times Book Review).
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