Anyone touched by grief can find a resolution in these poems. Bridging narrative fiction and a year of ekphrastic poems, all new in 2015, Smith offers Among Others as an exploration of relationships, and a celebration of the upside of the human spirit living with grace. These are far from dark poems: they expose the tentative and impermanent, but celebrate persistence in the face of tragedy. From an absent brother afflicted with PTSD after Vietnam,...
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