A Plausible Light: New and Collected Poems - Hardcover

Smyth, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0976298317 ISBN 13: 9780976298311

Publisher: El Leon Literary Arts, 2008

Synopsis

Poetry. "Smyth's formal poems, many of them sonnets, are exquisitely crafted and satisfyingly sensuous. The more discursive, autobiographical poems are heartbreaking. And "Coda," the final section, deserves close study; it is both moving and gratifying"-Maxine Kumin. Paul Smyth is the author of Conversions, and his poetry has appeared in Atlantic Monthly and Poetry, which awarded him the Dillon Memorial Prize. Just after completing last corrections on the manuscript for A PLAUSIBLE LIGHT, Paul Smyth died in late 2006.

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About the Author

Paul Smyth (31 January 1944 - 17 December 2006) was an American poet, writer, and teacher. Paul Smyth was born in Boston and raised in Holliston, Massachusetts. At the age of sixteen, he left home to hitchhike across the North America. During this time, he spent time in Mexico, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Provincetown. It was in Massachusetts that he got his first writing job as a freelancer for the New Beacon Newspaper. He studied in Harvard University's extension program with poet Theodore Morrison. He received his B.A. in 1968. Smyth was married three times, the third time to the poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg. He had two children from his second marriage.

Edition details

• Publisher: El Leon Literary Arts
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976298317
• ISBN 13: 9780976298311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 141