Description
Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith's new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive organic shapes. The book's forty-three pieces gather themselves into three flights that hover above and touch down among the politics of memory and the psychology of beauty. With inspiration drawn from memoir, myth, history, fiction, and the visual arts, That Beauty in the Trees presents, ponders, and sometimes judges the actions, fates, and aesthetics of not only the author's friends and family but also legendary and historical figures, including Achilles, Catullus, George Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, H.D., Ezra Pound, and many more.
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/19/2023
Pages: 116
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9780807177983
ISBN10: 0807177989
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/19/2023
Pages: 116
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9780807177983
ISBN10: 0807177989
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places
About the Author
Ron Smith was poet laureate of Virginia from 2014 to 2016. He is the author of four poetry collections: Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, Moon Road, Its Ghostly Workshop, and The Humility of the Brutes. Smith currently serves as writer-in-residence at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia.