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Devotions

Devotions
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Devotions Paperback - 2011

by Smith, Bruce,

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  • Title Devotions
  • Author Smith, Bruce,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1ST
  • Condition New
  • Pages 104
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2011-04-15
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 12050958
  • ISBN 9780226764351 / 0226764354
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.1 x 0.28 in (22.76 x 15.49 x 0.71 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010027119
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected-sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly-with the hum and buzz of the culture. The culture, whether New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, carries the burden of race and "someone's idea of beauty." The poems fluctuate between the two poles of "lullaby and homicide" before taking a vow to remain on earth, to look right and left, to wait and to witness.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2011, Page 16
  • LJ Best Books of Year, 12/01/2011, Page 63
  • New York Times Book Review, 08/07/2011, Page 16
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/21/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/07/2011, Page 26

About the author

Bruce Smith is professor of English and creative writing at Syracuse University and the author of four books of poems. His book The Other Lover, also published by the University of Chicago Press, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

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