Looking into the Machinery
by Jared Smith
Over the course of a long and notable career, Jared Smith has made his poetic sense surer and has developed his technique to the level of mastery. Looking Into The Machinery demonstrates how his poetic vision, always expansive, has been refined over the course of seven collections. With a vision comparable to Whitman and Jeffers, these poems display how Smith's techniques reflect Pound, Eliot, and Neruda. Perhaps most startling is Smith's ability to make such longer poems sing.
Due out in spring 2010 from Tamarack Editions.