Deed / by Rod Smith
- Author
- Smith, Rod, 1962-
- Published
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (87 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- The Good House; The Spider Poems; The Given; Barnes & Chernobyl; Poem; 1 /43 /97; The Given; Moist Feelings: A Love Poem; Identity Is the Cause of Warts; Ted's Head; Specifically the Luminous; The Strength; Floorboard; Page One; the love that is truly a refuge for all living beings; The Narrative Quiescence; XCVII ("she knows who she is"); Homage to Homage to Creeley; Poem for Stingers; Wrong Turnstile; Shadows Are Our Friend; The Life of a Dime; pour le CGT.
- Summary
- A deed is a governmental conveyance, a power asserted by the written, for, as William Carlos Williams wrote to Robert Creeley: "the government can never be more than the government of the words." The question of ownership, of the words with which we define ourselves and each other, and of whose and what claims are legitimate is much at issue in Rod Smith's Deed, a lyric, ambitious, rebellious work thoroughly grounded in the New American tradition of poets such as John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781587297632 (electronic bk.)
1587297639 (electronic bk.)
9781587296192 (acid-free paper)
1587296195 (acid-free paper) - Digital File Characteristics
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