All posts by Eric Smith

March 28th, 2012

Tell Me She Is Happy With Her Life

In this collection, Chaple successfully fuses the personal with the spatial. As a result, an awareness of the way poems, by airing out the rooms of stanzas, can provide at once solace and disarray comes into terrible focus.

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September 23rd, 2011

Cool Reconnaissance of the Cursive M

Weather, for all of its pyrotechnics, is a tender book, artfully charting the landscapes these poems inhabit. …more

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Eric Smith has written reviews for Pleiades, Smartish Pace, Verse, and the National Book Foundation. His poems appear most recently in Five Points and Best New Poets 2010. He is also an editor for Cellpoems, a txt-message based poetry journal, and teaches at Marshall University.

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