'Municipal Love Poems' is Simon Smith's third collection from Shearsman Books, and is a companion volume to 'Last Morning' (Parlor Press) which appeared in early 2022. "Simon Smith's Municipal Love Poems navigates between the intimately personal, and the impersonally public. Everywhere the expression is musical, presented in tight lines, phrases, couplets and tercets — never longer — although several of these poems sustain their intensity over pages. The form is 'micrometer right / to the exact fit'. Smith's question in these poems centres around song - sound, music, voice, tongue —...