More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry - Smith, Simon
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This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content. On first receiving Reverdy Road editor Barry Schwabsky recalls: 'It was a revelation: resembling nothing I was familiar with in American poetry despite name-checking Jack Spicer and clear affinities with the New York School's love of speed, wit, and variousness of tone, it had a music I could tune right into, something very much its own though it has also helped me,…mehr

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This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content. On first receiving Reverdy Road editor Barry Schwabsky recalls: 'It was a revelation: resembling nothing I was familiar with in American poetry despite name-checking Jack Spicer and clear affinities with the New York School's love of speed, wit, and variousness of tone, it had a music I could tune right into, something very much its own though it has also helped me, I think, hear my way into the work of some of Smith's British contemporaries'.
Autorenporträt
Municipal Love Poems is a companion volume to Last Morning (Parlor Press, 2022) and is Simon Smith's third collection from Shearsman Books. From 2006 to 2022 Simon taught poetry, translation and creative writing at the University of Kent, London South Bank University and the Open University. From 1991-2007 he worked at The Poetry Library in London, becoming Librarian from 2003-2007. He is now a co-editor for the online magazines Free Verse and Blackbird. He is presently also translating a selection of poems by Du Fu and completing editing projects related to Paul Blackburn. He lives in London and on the Kent Coast.