Amazon PoetJaredSmith NYQ Books Small Press Distribution Category:  Poetry Publisher: New York Quarterly Books ISBN-10:  1630450030 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 85 Copyright: March 26, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781630450038 Price: $14.95 (eBook) Jared Smith is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, is a Director of The New York Quarterly Foundation, and Poetry Editor of Turtle Island Quarterly. This is the 11th volume of Jared Smith's poetry. It is a compassionate, transcendent journey through the mysteries, myths, and struggles of our time. It is dark at times, yet richly luminous, woven from the fiery brightness of love and a gentle humor, as Jared Smith employs the depth of a half-century of poetic craft and hard-earned experience in exploring the profound value of human dignity placed against the cosmic dance we share with all life, the earth, and the unknowable itself. This is a deeply resonant song of maturity, which ultimately fills the reader with a sense of peace and joy that will last a lifetime.

By William Tremblay
To The Dark Angels is alive with awe and wonder from cover to cover. Grasses become spirits, spaces between stars become the spaces of human longing, and flesh becomes the seismograph which records the million little quakes that shake our assumptions and forge our consciousness. Science and are swim like galaxies sweeping through each other, miraculously without collision. They are an endless song of the road and bestow the unexpected kindnesses of provident angels who may be ourselves from a different time.

By A.D. Winans
Jared Smith's poems are as necessary to life as a mother's breast to a new-born baby. Here is a poet who values place and time and ties the two together in a spiritual journey for answers to this thing we call life; poems of memory and reflection that will stay with the reader long after you turn off the lights and lose yourself in the mystery of sleep.

By Richard Broderick
This is a finely wrought work of loss and longing, of stories whose narrative details track back and forth across the only apparently firm boundary separating dreams from waking life.