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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Shaking Music from the Angry Air

Shaking Music from the Angry Air

Haugen, Hayley
Smith, Michael Dwayne

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1962405230
ISBN13: 9781962405232
Publisher: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Published: Jun 30 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In Shaking Music from the Angry Air, Michael Dwayne Smith keeps poems close to their source: mortality, wonder, and an infinite appetite for love. Frank and unpretentious, flinty, even brash, these poems sling us straight into the American southwest world of a boy-to-man quest through cities, coasts, and deserts. Smith's self-revelatory, ravenous, duende-filled personas, saddled by the origin story of an alcoholic home, break loose in escapades riddled with coyotes, deaths, horses, lovers, and ravens, accrued as a thoughtful, sometimes humorous exploration of life both sacred and profane. Bracingly candid and inventive, gracefully elegiac, tough, passionate, Smith traverses the landscape of the spirit, from the wailing of a dead junkie to a greening mountain of soft regret to the moon-bright drunken dancing of his working-class genesis. This dazzling collection will take the reader on a bareback ride into a raucous world of poetry, to be consumed by haunting delights, truths unglimpsed, sorrows known, and, ultimately, a reconciliation of hope and despair.

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