Selecting from among Charlie Smith s seven previous collections and
including more than forty astonishing new poems, Jump Soul
represents work from the career of a poet who writes with a
scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream
(New York Times Book Review). From the lush Southern landscapes of
Red Roads (1987) and the haunted longing of Heroin (2000) to the
bold eroticism of Women of America (2004) and, most recently, the
fresh and exuberant Word Comix (2009), Smith reminds us that we don
t really know what beauty is until we ve looked hard at the horror
that throws beauty into bright relief (David Kirby, New York
Times). Beauty in Smith s poetry is mixed with harrowing darkness;
it is the rescued returned to the floods / and fruit pickers, those
who catch beauty / aflight on the sweet-smelling breeze, authentic
characters / messed up, dead on the floor / of western motels,
crapped out jinxed, lost / to the boulevards. Smith is a poet of
shimmering energy (Mary Oliver). His work, brutal in its honesty
and stunning in its lyricism, is represented in all of its
extraordinary range in this new collection.
From Collected First Lines I m sure there is meaning, and I know
it s sometimes more interesting to stand in a road than to move
along it,
though even this, said with such confidence just a minute ago,
explains nothing."
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