Little Boats, Unsalvaged : Poems, 1992-2004 Paperback / softback
by Dave Smith
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A lyrical search for wisdom and meaning in the life of a man growing up in the New South of desegregating schools, rock-and-roll music, mobile populations, and volatile wars, Little Boats, Unsalvaged displays the profound historical sensibility that has long marked the poetry of Dave Smith.
Smith exhibits here a mature perspective on his childhood in a racially violent society and on his troubled search for happiness, whether sexual, professional, or aesthetic.
To that, he adds a chorus of elegies for poets central to his understanding of his native region- including Edwin Muir, Robert Penn Warren, and Allen Tate- and a vision of poetry as the art that unites medieval and contemporary elements.
Section by section, changes in subject, tempo, and even vocabulary offer at once a sense of unity and variety to the poems.
Little Boats, Unsalvaged poses a polyphonic inquiry into the experiences and memories of the Vietnam-defined generation, an inquiry whose answers can only be tentative, fretted, hung in the contingencies of being just as the little boat of joy waits- not useless or lost, but abandoned and so beyond visible redemption.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2005
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- ISBN:9780807131060
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2005
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- ISBN:9780807131060