
Insomniac Sentinel
by Smith Abraham
Title:
Insomniac Sentinel
Author:
Smith Abraham
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
128 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Baobab Press
ISBN-13:
9781936097449
EAN:
9781936097449
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
330
Dimensions (mm):
152 x 230 x 11
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
A new poetry collection from one of America's most lyric and sonically interesting poets.Abraham Smith's Insomniac Sentinel is a concatenation of sandhill cranes and their haunting deep time dinosaur barking. It is the croon of safety from the heart of Wisconsin. It is an aegis from the violence perpetuated on the young; that the young perpetuate; lurching and launching from tercets, those familiar island letting go sideways, the poems themselves as steady and desultory as sand and people and the places they abide. Insomniac Sentinel is a collision of meter, speed, and experience into auditory sensations that range from the elegiac to the ecstatic to the venomous in Smith’s nuanced considerations of blue-collar America. Mirroring the attentions of Midwest arrhythmia in the music of the sandhill cranes, Insomniac Sentinel resonates on temporal frequencies, waves ancient and contemporary, rolling from the throats of giants.










