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"Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen Butler
I release you like the crank-addled truck driver
releases his cargo at the midnight dock
until the warehouse is one in a trail
of crumbs, little light left on behind him.
James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic, and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He been the recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 88
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publication Date:
13 October 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781941411094
Format: Paperback
"Kimbrell (My Psychic) pushes his readers to the limit in his frenetic and unceasingly visceral third collection....Kimbrell's poems will doubtless come crashing back as unexpected, haunting nodes of language."
—Publishers Weekly
"The poems in Smote speak of loss and the wanting of more life.... [Kimbrell] lets us feel what cannot be expressed, by any words."
—NewPages
—Publishers Weekly
"The poems in Smote speak of loss and the wanting of more life.... [Kimbrell] lets us feel what cannot be expressed, by any words."
—NewPages
James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic, and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, and a past recipient of the Discovery / The Nation Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
I.
Free Checking!
So Many Stories
How to Tie a Knot
Pluto’s Gate: Mississippi
Take Me As I Am
Ode: Feeling Up My Friend’s Sister at the Moment Their Drunken Father Begins the Dog Slaughter
The Starting Point
II.
Apology after Returning to Hooker Street Thirty Years after We Moved
It Was Like a Movie
Smote
Apocalyptic Lullaby
The Full Ratio
Roots
My Father’s Friends Travel from the Afterlife to Attend His Memorial
Elegy for My Mother’s Ex Boyfriend
Kingfish
III.
Love Letter to You, Dear Reader
Elegy for the Epic
O Anna Lynn, You Must Have Known
No Death in the Land of the Dead
Chicken Brick’n
There’s Nothing Wrong with You
The Guitar Boat
Not Soul
Heuristic for the Nearsighted
Free Checking!
So Many Stories
How to Tie a Knot
Pluto’s Gate: Mississippi
Take Me As I Am
Ode: Feeling Up My Friend’s Sister at the Moment Their Drunken Father Begins the Dog Slaughter
The Starting Point
II.
Apology after Returning to Hooker Street Thirty Years after We Moved
It Was Like a Movie
Smote
Apocalyptic Lullaby
The Full Ratio
Roots
My Father’s Friends Travel from the Afterlife to Attend His Memorial
Elegy for My Mother’s Ex Boyfriend
Kingfish
III.
Love Letter to You, Dear Reader
Elegy for the Epic
O Anna Lynn, You Must Have Known
No Death in the Land of the Dead
Chicken Brick’n
There’s Nothing Wrong with You
The Guitar Boat
Not Soul
Heuristic for the Nearsighted