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Leave Smoke
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781940724249
Publisher: Gival Press
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Winner of the 2020 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry
Leave Smoke is a personal and down-to-earth collection of poetry that speaks to the ordinary and the ups and downs of life and relationships. Told with vivid language and raw emotion, the reader is easily whirled into the realm of the poetic voice. The poems capture the malaise of a society rarely redeemed by love in a world of hard work, chronic exhaustion, few pleasures: reminders of how we create an easy camaraderie to substitute for deeper connections.
Jeff Walt's bluesy, compassionate poems are rooted in the real world of chance and transitory struggle and suffering, but they evoke an otherworldliness that perfectly complements their dabbling in pop-culture-infused daydreams and nightmares. Leave Smoke is one of those rare books of poems that you'll wish, like life, would never end.- Jeremy Halinen
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