Looking Up Poems, 2010–2022
Looking Up Poems, 2010–2022 by Dave Smith is a collection published by LSU Press on December 14, 2022, featuring 128 pages of poetry in English. This volume gathers over a decade of new poems that reflect on significant events, animals, and people in the poet’s life as he approaches his eightieth year. The collection explores the profound changes brought about by retirement, prompting introspection on identity and purpose in this new phase of life.
Readers will find a diverse range of poems that serve as acts of attention, encompassing themes of family, nature, and the complexities of human experience. Smith’s work includes a mix of reflections, narratives, and vignettes that address both grief and joy, ultimately revealing love as a central theme. This edition invites readers to engage with the poet’s contemplations and the emotional landscapes he navigates, making it a thoughtful addition to the realm of contemporary American poetry.
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Looking Up collects more than a decade of new poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon events, animals, and people who prove to have a salutary significance to this poet, now approaching his eightieth year. He ponders the substantial changes wrought by retirement, which brings no expectations, no obligations, no role beyond what one has left, which prompts the question, What will you do now? Both the question and its answers are the subject of Looking Up, as Smith gives us poems as acts of attention, raptures, comedies, sardonic narratives, vignettes of grief and joy whose testimony shows that love is surely our core reality.
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