Grassroots [Paperback]

Jared Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2010

Jared Smith believes that poetry should be part of the fabric of every-day life. No one is better at integrating the art of the word into our existence. Doctor, lawyer, stevedore, indian chief, artist — here are poems that speak to all.

Editorial Reviews

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Rhapsodic is a word applicable to very few poets today. Jared Smith is one--triumphantly so in Grassroots. And what powerful roots these poems are. Let me speak out clear and bold: in this superb collection of lyric poems.... Smith's contemporary rhapsodic yawp [sounds] like Thor's hammer over the boardrooms and the war rooms and the stock exchanges and the spires and domes of the world. Poetry might not make anything happen, but this poet knows what happens without it. Read him and be grateful.
-- George Drew, author of American Cool

With Grassroots, Jared Smith continues to explore human longing, sorrow, and resilience.... His content is singular, specific, concrete, but it always functions sublimely, pointing towards the grander cycles of Eros and Thanatos. Here is a poet deep with thought and rich with emotion. Grassroots is a compelling, haunting, and unforgettable collection, one that I'll be revisiting and referencing for years to come.
-- John Amen, Editor of The Pedestal Magazine;

author of At The Threshold of Alchemy

Smith casts a wide net that seines in diverse images from nature and domestic life that revitalize our sense of the wildness of our existence on this planet. I can think of no other American poet who can credibly carry us, in the span of a single line break, from buckets of cornflakes to trawlers filled with fish--and make that connection seem inevitable.
-- Allen Hoey, author of Once Upon a Time at Blanche's and Stricter Means: Selected Earlier Poems

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: Wind Publications (August 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936138093
• ISBN-13: 978-1936138098
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,947,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jared Smith (Jared R.W. Smith) is a widely published contemporary American poet, as well as a former businessman, technology researcher, and adviser to several White House Commissions.

In addition to his books, his work has appeared in hundreds of literary journals in the U.S., Canada, France,the U.K., and in translation in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. His work has also been adapted to stage at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and in the suburbs of Chicago, as well as being broadcast on NPR and Pacifica networks. He travels extensively, offering readings and workshops throughout the U.S. His official website is www.jaredsmith.info

Jared received his B.A. cum laude and M.A. from New York University, where he studied under such masters as M.L Rosenthal, Robert Hazel, and William Packard. He has served on the Editorial Board as well as the Board of Directors of The New York Quarterly; as Columnist for Home Planet News; and as Guest Editor of The Pedestal Magazine. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets, Colorado Poets Center, Colorado Poetry Association, Illinois Poets Association, and former president of Poets & Patrons in Chicago. He has been listed in Poets & Writers Directory since its inception, and his biography is listed in Marquis' Who's Who In America among other reference sources.