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|  | | Grassroots
Jared Smith's 9th volume of poetry is hard, muscular poetry drawn from the front range of The Rocky Mountains, where he now lives.
Poems about how the land shapes men and the institutions they labor in. | |  | | Lake Michigan And Other Poems
This books contains the major poem "Lake Michigan," which has been compared to the work of Emerson, Whitman, Sandburg, C.K. Williams, and Seamus Heaney. It explores inter-relationships between the land and the people it supports. Other poems relate to relationships, time, and social patterns.
| |  | | Looking Into The Machinery: Selected Longer Poems
The selected longer poems of Jared Smith, edited and published by Alan Hoey
These poems were written over a 30 year period, and are selected from the author's first eight critically acclaimed volumes of poetry. | |  | | Song Of The Blood: An Epic
An epic, long-line poem that takes as its central figure the American people, united by their bloodlines and social institutions. This poem was written during the Vietnam conflict and reflects the dynamics, hopes, and fears of that time--a time similar to our current conflicts in the Middle East. This was Jared Smith's first published book, first appearing in 1983, and is still available through The Smith Press or through Amazon.
| |  | | The Collected Poems of Jared Smith: 1971-2011
This 600 page volume brings together more than 360 poems from 9 volumes that Jared Smith has published over a 40 year career. It is available in both hard- and soft-cover/
| | | | The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations
Critically acclaimed book of poetry about working class Americans and the land that forms them. Nominated for a Pulitzer in 2008.
Strong organic poetry by one of America's most widely published contemporary poets. This has drawn parallels to Garcia Lorca, Henry David Thorough, and Carl Sanburg, among others. | |  | | This Town
A chapbook of poems of correspondence written between two seasoned poets--Jared Smith and Kyle Laws.
This chapbook co-authored by poets Jared Smith and Kyle Laws presents extraordinary insights into the meaning of "town" and how we find out "place" at different points in our lives. The poems span the country from one small town to another, and across time--from the 1940s until today.
Colorado Poet Laureate Joseph Hutchison calls this collection "poetry of great subtlety, intelligence, and surprising pleasures." | |  | | To The Dark Angels
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 th | |  | | Walking The Perimeters Of The Plate Glass Window Factory
These are poems that sweat in the workplace along with men and women who drive our economy...from factory floors, to science labs, to high-rise offices. They are poems of strife, and love, and hope born within the heart of the common man. And nothing is greater than the common man.
| | | | Where Images Become Imbued With Time
Jared Smith's sixth volume of poetry, this has drawn critical acclaim from such mainstream literary poets and playwrights as Andrew Glaze to such avante garde poets and critics as Hugh Fox.
Poems in this collection have appeared in such nationally recognized journals as The New York Quarterly, The Pedestal, After Hours, Bitter Oleander, Ariel, Home Planet News, The Iconoclast, Juice, Presa, The Seventh Quarry (Wales,) and Shabdaguchha.
Featured poems include "Storm King Mountain," "Symmetries," "A Matter of Degrees," "Ramses Visits the Cradle of Demorcacy," "The Intensity of Light," "Nanotechnology Man," and "Where the Farthest Galaxies Roar Into Nothingness," among others. |
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