Before and After, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date--with poems so short and direct they hit home like a knife to the heart. InBefore and After, Smith effectively captures the intimate life of one family--in all its courage, deceit, misery, madness, love, revelation, and rage--and transforms it to record the life of the American family.
Before and After, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date--with poems so short and direct they hit home like a knife to th...
In these haunting poems by one of this country's most gifted poets, heroin becomes a metaphor for desire as the speaker recalls his past addiction and lost loves.
In these haunting poems by one of this country's most gifted poets, heroin becomes a metaphor for desire as the speaker recalls his past addiction and...
Women of America is an affecting meditation on the mysteries of what drives the heart by one of America's most distinguished poets. Charlie Smith draws the poems in this volume from the tussle and cry of love, in remembrance of love's journey from fantasy to fact and back again, and in anticipation of loving the way we were meant to.
Women of America is an affecting meditation on the mysteries of what drives the heart by one of America's most distinguished poets. Charlie S...
"Who but a poet in joy of himself can write of the discordant facts to make of them a dance of words across the page. He offers no resolution, no turning of things right side up, except to address them gallantly, with style, in entertainment of the facts. Here is a generosity with life and because of it a poet, Charlie Smith, richly gifted." --David Ignatow
"Who but a poet in joy of himself can write of the discordant facts to make of them a dance of words across the page. He offers no resolution, no turn...
As both a poet and novelist, Charlie Smith has been hailed as one of the most original voices on the literary scene today. The New York Times calls him prodigiously talented and Madison Smartt Bell describes him as not only a spectacular stylist but also a visionary. He is the author of four novels, a book of novellas, and two previous volumes of poetry, Red Roads and Indistinguishable from the Darkness. In images both stark and voluptuous, Charlie Smith writes in The Palms of a world that is sometimes brutal, violent, and chaotic. His mythmaking imagination, Stanley Kunitz says, is the art...
As both a poet and novelist, Charlie Smith has been hailed as one of the most original voices on the literary scene today. The New York Times calls hi...
In the fourth addition to her series of books about Circle Time in the Secondary School, Charlie has developed a fascinating Circle Time book that addresses the transition from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4 and considers the dip in achievement especially evident amongst boys.
At this transitional phase schools focus on the continuity of curriculum rather than emotional needs. This Circle Time book helps develop emotional wellbeing and reduces the likelihood that pupils will struggle in the later stages of secondary education.
Young people need signposting, support,...
In the fourth addition to her series of books about Circle Time in the Secondary School, Charlie has developed a fascinating Circle Time book that add...
