poems "direct . . . adventuresome" (Gwendolyn Brooks)
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Smith's second collection of poetry reflects upon relationships, street life, and worlds familiar and unfamiliar. In these glimmering poems, the language itself comes alive and touches the soul, demonstrating why Smith is a popular performance poet. She is a master at overlaying vivid scenes with compassionate concern: "He wades brown rivers,/ struggles against the flat faces of mountains,/ his traveling blues off-key and furious,/ sung out to the woman who shrivels in a wooden bed,/ wrapped in sheets bleached blue and bitter,/ the fever eating her alive,/ her heart twisted and cramped in its shrinking pocket." Reading Big Towns, Big Talk is like witnessing the blues tugging at the heart; it shows how we can obtain insight into the lives of everyday people. This fine collection is recommended for major poetry collections.
- Lenard D. Moore, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake Cty., N.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Lenard D. Moore, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake Cty., N.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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After Green Mill, March 1988
Always In The Head
Annie Pearl Smith Discovers Moonlight
The Architect
Big Towns, Big Talk
Biting Back
Blonde White Women
But Only Eye
Changing Partners
Chinese Cucumbers
Climbing To Erice
Doin' The Louvre
Dolls
Drumchild
Dylan, Two Days
Heartland
I Think It's That One
If I Cannot Dance
In The Ultimate Blues Bar
Instructions To A Poet Who Suspects His Own Mediocrity
The Lord Works Silvio's
Medusa
Nickel Wine And Deep Kisses
Olive Oyl Talks To People Magazine
On The Street Where She Lives
Pain Passing
The Poetry Widow
Pretnding Sleep
Say, Can You See
Shaving
Skinhead
Speaking Out The Stars
The Spinning Gone
Stop
Summer To Fall, Chicago
Sweet Daddy
Tabloid Headline: Haunted Elvis Lamp Sings Burning Love
That Third Drink
Trying On Wedding Gowns In Filene's Basement
What I Didn't Learn
The Word
Your Man
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Always In The Head
Annie Pearl Smith Discovers Moonlight
The Architect
Big Towns, Big Talk
Biting Back
Blonde White Women
But Only Eye
Changing Partners
Chinese Cucumbers
Climbing To Erice
Doin' The Louvre
Dolls
Drumchild
Dylan, Two Days
Heartland
I Think It's That One
If I Cannot Dance
In The Ultimate Blues Bar
Instructions To A Poet Who Suspects His Own Mediocrity
The Lord Works Silvio's
Medusa
Nickel Wine And Deep Kisses
Olive Oyl Talks To People Magazine
On The Street Where She Lives
Pain Passing
The Poetry Widow
Pretnding Sleep
Say, Can You See
Shaving
Skinhead
Speaking Out The Stars
The Spinning Gone
Stop
Summer To Fall, Chicago
Sweet Daddy
Tabloid Headline: Haunted Elvis Lamp Sings Burning Love
That Third Drink
Trying On Wedding Gowns In Filene's Basement
What I Didn't Learn
The Word
Your Man
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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