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Obediah Michael Smith's 20th book of poetry, is inspired by women
he met while traveling through Jinja, the Eastern Region of Uganda,
Africa. Since July 2014, he has been travelling through Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania and presently resides in Kisii, Kenya.
YouTube Wives Or Stepping Stones is, before everything, first and
foremost, a literary act. Keats' urns and Rilke's torsos, Bishop's
fish and Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition, this is the
company that Smith is writing to keep as hedoggedly pursues his
models. In the concrete this litany of wives appears as a series of
tawdry fetishes predestined to fail-dancing girls for Degas,
barmaids for Manet, pubescence for Balthus, this Korean for
Orientalism, those women for Woman, these artists for ART. These
poems and pieces, confessions and letters and descriptions, are
essays toward bringing art to life. Smith screens them all, flexing
his desire toward the idea of their beauty, even as he is
frustrated by their overwhelming distance and his underwhelming
isolation. Smith is a Kemp Road Warhol. And so these poems are
markers of a journey, in pursuance of an absolute level, a true
altitude. This is a Baudelarian night-walk for beauty. Who are
these wives? Where do these stepping stones lead?
Discovery Daze - 72 Poems is Obediah Michael Smith's 16th book of
poems. He has attended and participated in poetry festivals in
Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Medellin, Colombia. His
poems, in English, are included in literary journals and
anthologies throughout the Caribbean, in the USA and in England.
His poems, translated into Spanish, are included in anthologies in
Colombia, in Mexico, in Peru, in Venezuela and in Spain. At The
College of The Bahamas, in 2009 and in 2011, he facilitated the
poetry writing room for the Bahamas Writers Summer Institute.
Wide Sargasso Sea & 62 Other Poems is a bilingual book, written
in English and translated into Spanish. These 63 poems, chiefly
about life Over-the-Hill, on New Providence, are, or attempt to be,
the beating heart of life among Bahamians in the country's capital.
The entire island upon which the capital sits is referred to as
Nassau. It is there where these 63 poems, most of them, came into
the word. There poems were forged by the tensions coupled with the
beauty of life among Bahamians. They reflect the real life of the
people in what is imagined to be a place for tourists and tourism.
These poems are snatches of identity, the author's and his
country's and it's people's.
Poems written while cruising with a companion to Cozumel, Mexico
and Key West, and while visiting University of Miami on our way
home.
Poems inspired by the language, culture and landscape of The
Bahamas and the wider Caribbean.
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