{"product_id":"the-wick-of-memory-new-and-selected-poems-1970-2000-paperback","title":"The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970--2000 - 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\u003eDave Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000, \u003c\/i\u003e Dave Smith's poetry reveals its roots in the elegiac tradition that has marked a southern literature so prominent in the twentieth century. Yet equally visible, now, is the ancestral shadow of the Anglo-Saxon poetry of religious questing and the inner voyaging of dreams. With runic parables of nature and its implacable force, Smith's narrative style is a gritty, ever realistic presentation of human di-lemmas in a world both familiar to us all and eerily strange. Here the actions of character contest the principles of grace, courage, manliness, and fate for what matters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSailing Atlantic waters, exploring domestic relationships, or plumbing memory for a personal and cultural identity, Smith dramatizes a vision of obligations we honor and, often enough, also fail, moments in which we may touch our origins and what philosopher William James called \"felt facts.\" These are the wellsprings of beauty and happiness and freedom, ambitions of all poetry. The twenty-one new poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Wick of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e show Dave Smith turning to work that is surprisingly autumnal. Yet entering the new millennium, Smith is a poet restless as ever in formal practices. If this book chronicles a soul's journey, it also tears life roughly against its inevitable limits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether he writes of the music of the Platters, pulling a pig's tail, children racing wheelchairs, an itinerant black saxophonist hassled by the police, broken romance, or the lure of boats and water, Smith shows behind everything the reality of love. It lasts. It is what glues together the pieces of our lives that seem to float so terribly and easily away. \u003ci\u003eThe Wick of Memory, \u003c\/i\u003e Dave Smith's record of that vision, is a poetry that registers in every ebb and flow the power of continuous passion.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDave Smith, department chair of the Hopkins Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University and former coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of numerous collections of poetry, fiction, criticism, and anthologies. He has won fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lyndhurst Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.02 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726432170291,"sku":"9780807125496","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZFhPOWNnMklJRGdsT0s4YjBVYkg0QT09.webp?v=1763737190","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-wick-of-memory-new-and-selected-poems-1970-2000-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}