And There Was Evening and There Was Morning - Smith, Mike
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A moving nonfiction debut by Mississippi Delta poet Mike Smith, this memoir-in-essays, AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING: ESSAYS ON ILLNESS, LOSS, AND LOVE, tracks the loss of Smith's first wife to cancer after the birth of the second child, offering a portrait of marriage, family, and tragedy. In honest, and at times darkly comic terms, Smith documents the strange set of coincidences between his first wife's illness and his stepdaughter's similar battle the year his second marriage began, and examines blended families, remarriage, helping children find ways to cope with the loss of a parent, and the influence of spirituality upon loss.…mehr

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A moving nonfiction debut by Mississippi Delta poet Mike Smith, this memoir-in-essays, AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING: ESSAYS ON ILLNESS, LOSS, AND LOVE, tracks the loss of Smith's first wife to cancer after the birth of the second child, offering a portrait of marriage, family, and tragedy. In honest, and at times darkly comic terms, Smith documents the strange set of coincidences between his first wife's illness and his stepdaughter's similar battle the year his second marriage began, and examines blended families, remarriage, helping children find ways to cope with the loss of a parent, and the influence of spirituality upon loss.
Autorenporträt
Mike Smith has published three collections of poetry, including Multiverse , a collection of two anagrammatic cycles. His translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust was published by Shearsman Books in 2012, and he is co-editor of the anthology, The Mint's Invitation: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts in Translation (Columbia University Press). Together with software engineer Brandon Nelson, Smith created and curated The Zombie Poetry Project. He lives in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, in Cleveland, MI.