{"product_id":"smoke-memories-poems-paperback","title":"Smoke Memories: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDoug Ramspeck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE LENA SHULL AWARD!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdvance Praise for\u003ci\u003e Smoke Memories\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDoug Ramspeck\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmoke Memories\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound meditation on how we carry our pasts within us-memories lingering like smoke, echoing in the mind, growing in the roadside weeds, embodied by the very landscapes in which we have lived our lives. Lucid and grave, lush and magical, \u003ci\u003eSmoke Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is a great book of poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Christopher Salerno, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Grave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Smoke Memories, \u003c\/i\u003eDoug Ramspeck injects his adult self into past experiences to reevaluate them with a keen knowledge of mortality in mind. \u003ci\u003eMy dead are sitting with me again this morning on my back porch and saying nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, Ramspeck explains. We must say to ourselves what the dead might wish to say. A most tender and profoundly moving new collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-A. Molotkov, author of \u003ci\u003eFuture Symptoms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterful meditation on family tragedies and grief, Doug Ramspeck's \u003ci\u003eSmoke Memories \u003c\/i\u003eis at turns incantatory and stark, allegorical and personal. With the titular smoke appearing as a cigarette, housefire, beekeeping tool, chimney exhaust, crematorium signal, and more, Ramspeck weaves together repeated elements that make the book feel novelistic . . . though with a language that sings, like the dream-father in \"Mud Gospel\" \"And sometimes his voice was a cadence and a drum and a gospel, \/ and sometimes the words perched with the crows or muscled \/ out on their bellies with the snakes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lisa Ampleman, author of\u003ci\u003e Mom in Space \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoug Ramspeck is the author of ten poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a novella. Individual poems have appeared in journals that include \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Sun, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina. His author website can be found at dougramspeck.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther Books by Doug Ramspeck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing in their Dead Mother's Dresses, \u003c\/i\u003estories, forthcoming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlur, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook of Years\u003c\/i\u003e, poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder Black Leaves, \u003c\/i\u003enovella\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDistant Fires, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\/prose\/drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Flowers, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Owl That Carries Us Away, \u003c\/i\u003estories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOriginal Bodies, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMechanical Fireflies, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePossum Nocturne, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere We Come From, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Tupelo Country, \u003c\/i\u003epoems\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52805513281843,"sku":"9781959346852","price":27.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1yCh5El2JC9781959346852.webp?v=1764860299","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/smoke-memories-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}