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Insomniac Sentinel by Abraham Smith Paperback Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9781936097449
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- ISBN
- 9781936097449
- Book Title
- Insomniac Sentinel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Baobab Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Nature
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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A new poetry collection from one of America's most lyric and sonically interesting poets. Abraham Smith's Insomniac Sentinel is a concatenation of sandhill cranes and their haunting deep time dinosaur barking. It is the croon of safety from the heart of Wisconsin. It is an aegis from the violence perpetuated on the young; that the young perpetuate; lurching and launching from tercets, those familiar island letting go sideways, the poems themselves as steady and desultory as sand and people and the places they abide. Insomniac Sentinel is a collision of meter, speed, and experience into auditory sensations that range from the elegiac to the ecstatic to the venomous in Smith's nuanced considerations of blue-collar America. Mirroring the attentions of Midwest arrhythmia in the music of the sandhill cranes, Insomniac Sentinel resonates on temporal frequencies, waves ancient and contemporary, rolling from the throats of giants.
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Publisher
Baobab Press
ISBN-10
1936097443
ISBN-13
9781936097449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057268281
Product Key Features
Book Title
Insomniac Sentinel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Nature
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
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Ps3619
Reviews
"Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keeping the art form alive. He is patiently stoking the fires of imagination and his persistence has kept the cinders of inspiration smoldering. It is a joy to read his work and thrill to hear him read it in person." - Margo Price, singer-songwriter, "This message from the kinetic yet ghostly realm ofWisconsin that suffuses Abraham Smith's Insomniac Sentinel alive with its ruralglossary, with its hidden waking clandestinely complex within seeming quotidiandisplay. It scripts a lingual fuse of heresy, that absorbs particulates ofhuman brewing, and what follows is a slow magnetic glow that suffuses the textnot unlike a susurrant under-ringing. Thus, it emits by complexity by this glowletting us know that verbal life continues to not only thrive but quietly eruptand cascade from regions that we seemingly thought to be inert, alwayspoetically aware of yielding circuitous treasure from what was thought to be aless than magnetic hamlet." - WillAlexander , Pulitzer finalist for Refractive Africa and author of The Contortionist Whispers "you know, i am the giver/back of sound." This bardic claimcould only be true of Abraham Smith, who sings open-throatedly the continuoussong of a crane lifting off the junkpile and into history's storm. His songpushes through and around the language of working, of working bodies, bothhuman and inhuman, raising it all up, illuminating it, as in a manuscript,indicating what is precious, as if sound could be the one thing it is not, andshed light. That's the sad note in this "gravy-to-cradle" threnody, this"lunged-up thud tender." Reading Abraham Smith makes you ask the big questions,like, are our wings made of the shreds of where we came from? Does a bird flyon its wing, or on its song?" -- JoyelleMcSweeney , author of T oxicon and Arachne "I can hear Abraham Smith's voice intoning in hisbreathless and headlong fashion throughout his latest collection of poems. Theverses practically read themselves to me, accompanied by an insistent rhythm abackbeat for music that these poems conjure up." - Charlie Parr , Smithsonian Folkways recordingartist and author of Last of the Better Days Ahead "Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keepingthe art form alive. He is patiently stoking the fires of imagination and hispersistence has kept the cinders of inspiration smoldering. It is a joy to readhis work and thrill to hear him read it in person." - MargoPrice , Grammy nominee, Farm Aid board member, and author of MaybeWe'll Make It, "Thismessage from the kinetic yet ghostly realm of Wisconsin that suffuses AbrahamSmith's Insomniac Sentinel alive with its rural glossary, withits hidden waking clandestinely complex within seeming quotidian display. Itscripts a lingual fuse of heresy, that absorbs particulates of human brewing,and what follows is a slow magnetic glow that suffuses the text not unlike asusurrant under-ringing. Thus, it emits by complexity by this glow letting usknow that verbal life continues to not only thrive but quietly erupt andcascade from regions that we seemingly thought to be inert, always poeticallyaware of yielding circuitous treasure from what was thought to be a less thanmagnetic hamlet." - Will Alexander, Refractive Africa "I can hear Abraham Smith's voice intoning in his breathless and headlong fashion throughout his latest collection of poems. The verses practically read themselves to me, accompanied by an insistent rhythm a backbeat for music that these poems conjure up." - Charlie Parr, country blues musician "Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keeping the art form alive. He is patiently stoking the fires of imagination and his persistence has kept the cinders of inspiration smoldering. It is a joy to read his work and thrill to hear him read it in person." - Margo Price, singer-songwriter "you know, i am the giver/back of sound." This bardic claimcould only be true of Abraham Smith, who sings open-throatedly the continuoussong of a crane lifting off the junkpile and into history's storm. His songpushes through and around the language of working, of working bodies, bothhuman and inhuman, raising it all up, illuminating it, as in a manuscript,indicating what is precious, as if sound could be the one thing it is not, andshed light. That's the sad note in this "gravy-to-cradle" threnody,this "lunged-up thud tender." Reading Abraham Smith makes you ask thebig questions, like, are our wings made of the shreds of where we came from?Does a bird fly on its wing, or on its song?" -- Joyelle McSweeney, Toxiconand Arachne, "Thismessage from the kinetic yet ghostly realm of Wisconsin that suffuses AbrahamSmith's Insomniac Sentinel alive with its rural glossary, withits hidden waking clandestinely complex within seeming quotidian display. Itscripts a lingual fuse of heresy, that absorbs particulates of human brewing,and what follows is a slow magnetic glow that suffuses the text not unlike asusurrant under-ringing. Thus, it emits by complexity by this glow letting usknow that verbal life continues to not only thrive but quietly erupt andcascade from regions that we seemingly thought to be inert, always poeticallyaware of yielding circuitous treasure from what was thought to be a less thanmagnetic hamlet." - Will Alexander , Refractive Africa "I can hear Abraham Smith's voice intoning in his breathless and headlong fashion throughout his latest collection of poems. The verses practically read themselves to me, accompanied by an insistent rhythm a backbeat for music that these poems conjure up." -Charlie Parr, country blues musician "Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keeping the art form alive. He is patiently stoking the fires of imagination and his persistence has kept the cinders of inspiration smoldering. It is a joy to read his work and thrill to hear him read it in person." - Margo Price, singer-songwriter
Table of Content
CONTENTS THE INSOMNIAC SENTINEL 7 THEY PAINT 16 SHELL LIFE 22 DOUBLE VISION 29 BRAKE 4 CRANES 35 NATOMY 41 WHY DANCE 47 RIVER BLUES 56 IN TIMES OF LOVELY LOVE 68 IN KEY OF WISH RABBIT SINGS 74 HOODWINK AUBADE 80 YOUR ANCIENT & FRANKLY BREAKING UNDERWEAR 90 WESTFIELD 95 PURPLE MOUTH LIFE 106 TOUCHSTONE BLUES 109 WHY EAT WHY KILL 121
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
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