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I Am Your Lifeguard: New and Selected Poems

I Am Your Lifeguard: New and Selected Poems

Smith, Charlie

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 1324118172
ISBN13: 9781324118176
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Drawing on nine previous collections and including nearly fifty new poems, Charlie Smith's I Am Your Lifeguard marks the return of one of our most honest and unorthodox poets. The poems in this collection expose jagged truths: some are love letters; some focus our attention on beauty we may have otherwise missed, stepped over or cast aside; some tell us secrets we may want to carry in a locket; some are x-ray readings of our hearts; some are laugh-out-loud funny; some are quiet revelations. Each one is a prism through which Smith refracts and reflects the experience of consciousness, such as No Nonsense, in which he writes that I came / away from myself / unstuck / and a sort of translucent orderliness / like a small herd of gazelles / entered my mind. The cascade of imagery, observation, and revelation that characterizes Smith's work imbues the collection with an expansive, radical compassion. It remind[s] us . . . we don't really know what beauty is until we've looked hard at the horror that throws beauty into bright relief (David Kirby, New York Times Book Review).

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