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Pop Smoke & Pray

Pop Smoke & Pray

Barry Smith, Frank

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 061517180X
ISBN13: 9780615171807
Publisher: Logan Ryan Smith
Published: Sep 22 2007
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Frank Barry Smith, now retired and living in Washington state, served as a combat medic in the Vietnam war. This collection of poetry--written mostly while in Vietnam--chronicles first and foremost the friendships made and lost during war time. I have made friends and lost them / in ways more quickly than some / but less than others... Smith writes in THE MIDDLE, ironically the book's final poem. POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book of memory, a book of fear, a book of observation, a book of confusion and youth and a time that seemed to go at lightspeed while the long days still dragged into even longer nights; but, most importantly, POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book about love and its ability to remain and be found in the worst situations. Frank Barry Smith studied poetry under Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and John Logan.

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