Blue on Blue Ground

by Aaron Smith and Aaron Smith

Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Blue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession--how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable. Smith's relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958880
• ISBN13: 9780822958888
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

I never thought I could be a fan of poetry but his work is accessible, witty and moving. I highly recommend it. I can't wait for the next one.

Passion + Craft

Smith does what few modern poets accomplish: touching stories within a crafted frame. These poems are layered and poignant. His energy comes off the page. The poem "Keep Him There" is gorgeous and his odes to Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are funny and startling at the same time. Smith is another poet who reassures me that poetry is not dying.

Beautiful

Brilliant. Aaron Smith has written beautifully brutal, wildly funny poetry with the rawness and tenacity of a self performed autopsy; poetry has never been so gorgeously unfearing.

life changing

Reading any of Aarons work is like watching something that you arent supposed to but coming away knowing even more about yourself and humanity...