The Bounteous World: New Poems - Softcover

Frederick Smock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937968049 ISBN 13: 9781937968045

Publisher: Broadstone Books, 2013

Synopsis

This new volume of poetry by Frederick Smock began with his chance discovery of the work of 20th century Norwegian poet Olav Hauge, who "opened a window through which many of these poems subsequently entered." Written with his seemingly effortless elegance, these are poems of finely etched observation, of serene appreciation, as deceptively simple as the world they depict with such grace. "Each poem in this book creates a blaze of clarity, intensifies a moment of insight: evening sun climbing a bookshelf, lichen feasting on a tree trunk, a window looking down into a courtyard or up into blue sky. Like the opthalmologist's just-right lens, Smock's poems bring the blurry world into focus so that sight and insight become Vision, revealing our world's bounty, helping us to see, doing the real work of poetry." Jane Gentry

About this title

About the Author:

Frederick Smock is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Bellarmine University in his native city of Louisville, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife Olga-Maria Cruz. The author of five previous collections of poetry in addition to books of essays, his poems have appeared widely.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadstone Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1937968049
• ISBN 13: 9781937968045
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72