Word Comix: Poems

“Smith writes with a scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream.”—New York Times Book Review

Taking as his starting point such wide-ranging subjects as comic books, politics, romantic love, geology, newspapers, totalitarianism, the natural world, the classics, Paris, Miami Beach, and war, Charlie Smith has written freshly realized poems in which compassion and tough-mindedness gesture toward wisdom.