Trespasser: Poems

by R.T. Smith

Book Overview

With craggy Celtic metaphysics and perfect linguistic pitch, R. T. Smith evokes the landscape, culture, and history of Ireland and the New World through the eyes and ears of an outsider. Words matter to Smith, and the language of these poems is knotty and precise, blazing into moments of recognition with the elliptical testimony and spare light of everyday objects:

. . . adze
and hammer, gate
latch, cracked Baleek
and a Claddagh...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807120529
• ISBN13: 9780807120521
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 9.3"