Travis Ian Smith - THE SALT FLOWERS
Join us for a poetry reading and booksigning with Travis Ian Smith in celebration of his debut book of poetry, THE SALT FLOWERS.
Travis Smith's poems are extraordinary because they bear and praise a world where transcendence is available if we surrender to the physical aspect of ourselves and things very nearby us, like flowers, or lovers, or a star. Words and lines written from such a place are rare in poetry because a maker of such poems must be diligent not to be carried completely by the emotional current of longing, whose extreme is sentimentality. Travis's poems move headlong onto this poetically dangerous edge with patience and clarity and grace. I would say they always have. His poems are wonderfully alive at the very delicate brink of delight.
--Kathleen Peirce, Guggenheim fellow and author of The Owl Hour, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award.
Travis Ian Smith lives in New Orleans and teaches writing and literature as an adjunct instructor at Tulane University. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals such as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Grasslands Review, The Red River Review, The texas Observer, Sun Poetic Times, and Volpe.
The Salt Flowers (Paperback)
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: MT Pages, 4/2010
- Street:
- Octavia Books
- Additional:
- 513 Octavia St
- City:
- New Orleans ,
- Province:
- Louisiana
- Postal Code:
- 70115-2055
- Country:
- United States
