Push
A Collection of Poems
Distributed for the University of Scranton Press
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Grandpa’s Glass Eye
The Underground Fort
Hanging Out the Wash
Gutter Ball
Bottle Caps
Robbers
Who Needs Fort Apache?
The Water Pistol
The Birth of Venus
Ice Skating
34 C
Genu
Play
Trajectories
Vision
The Trestle Bridge at Mahoning Creek
The Rose Petunia
Near the Andy Warhol Museum
The Watercolors of East Carson Street
Morning
Drying the Dishes
Confessions
Tootsie
Dog Dirt
Crossing the Bayonne Bridge
On the Turnpike Bridge
Bridges
The Boulevard Pool
Hardpack
Ray
Relatives
Push
Brass
Dragons
Sleeping in Pine Beach
A Map for My Mother
The Kaskaskia River
Day Care
Wetlands
Wolf Creek
Under My Arms
Black Rocks
Dancing with the Rocks in the Cowanshannock
The Whale Rocks
White Whales at Buttermilk Falls
Humpback
Design
Surfing
Agent
Natural Science
On Seeing Alaska at an Early Age
Ice Jam Above Kittanning
Listen
Spring
Rain
Wild Columbine
Womb
Still Life
The Deer at Dusk
The New Journalism
Banded
Teacher Preparation
The Right Answer
Tamaroa
Word Perfect
Tenure
Singapore
Internal Revenue
Troy Hill
The History of Flight
Ottocento
Conventional Wisdom
Drifters
Procession
Sunday on the South Side
The Pennsylvania Turnpike
The Spirit of Pears
The National Formulary
“What a gift Ronald Smits has for creating compact, resonant scenes. His poems push on the clarity button inside us—vivid transport for the reader.”
“Poetry is a celebration of life, yet poets often express this truth ironically, elegiacally. But Ron Smits looks at the miracle of our world and tell us openly, ‘there is nothing / in this vision that I do not love.’ This is a poetry of joy—not life’s memorial, but the life itself. Push is a delightful gift, and reading these poems is like getting to open ‘birthday and Christmas gifts combined.’”
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