Spill
80 pages
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4 line drawings
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6 x 9
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© 2018
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Beautiful ThroatGarden
Summer Rain
Raccoon
Goodbye Tuscaloosa
Ballad and Proposition
Gaze
What Are They Doing in the Next Room?
The Whiteness
Marvin Gaye Sings the National Anthem, 1983
“Are You Ready to Smash White Things?”
Lewisburg
Meat
Run
Boilermaker
Bird
Sister
Button
Pollen
Honey
True/False
Ferment
Index
Review Quotes
Publishers Weekly
“Smith dismantles the boundaries among the lyric, travelogue, and philosophy in this hybridized collection. . . . As Smith shifts gracefully among locales, genres, and temporal moments, the text performs and enacts its apt title, questioning the extent to which any individual voice exists apart from a shared cultural imagination. . . . Smith’s volume considers history, violence, and subjectivity with compassion and remarkable insight.”
Rosanna Warren, author of Ghost in a Red Hat
“Bruce Smith makes poetry from not-poetry, art from not-art, in these savage songs where history clashes with ecstasy. From the central prose sequence of prison life in the Vietnam years to chants and curses of our own day, this Song of My Smashed Self mourns, accuses, confesses, and multiplies. Bruce Smith is writing fully political lyric, ‘patterns of the blast.’”
Laura Kasischke, author of Space, In Chains
“This is a book through which we can ride smoothly into a time, a place, its passions and terrors; however, when you glance in the rearview mirror you see that the gravel has been churned up by your traveling at such speed, that you’ve left Earth with this poet, that you are not where you expected to be, but you are where you never doubted you should be going.”
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