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Author_Ron Smith
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807132715
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences ""Via Appia"" and ""To Ithaca,"" Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel. Domestic poems give way to poems of pilgrimage and witness, to poems of literary homage and metaphysical questioning. A mind nurtured in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South drifts north and west and finally abroad, and sometimes into visionary, mysterious pasts. With skeptical reverence, the poems hunger for and dramatize a search for immanence and transcendence. Many poems examine the fear of meaninglessness, the griefs of separation and alienation, and the limits as well as the powers of language.
A native of Savannah, Georgia, Ron Smith is the author of the poetry collection Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery. In 2005 he was an inaugural winner of the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry and is now a curator for that prize. His critical prose appears regularly in the Georgia Review, Blackbird, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is currently Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, where he also teaches courses in poetry at the University of Richmond.
