Synopses & Reviews
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"The world and the language of Charlie Smith's The Palms are precise, rich, rigorous in both emotion and vision, forceful, and ultimately generous to the poet's own pain and wonder, and to the pain and wonder of others. These are true poems, both honest and beautiful, and Smith is a poet I am deeply grateful to read and re-read." Jane Hirshfield
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"What I admire most about this new book his best to date by Charlie Smith is its absolute urgency, honesty, and the tough, tender, and whole heart at the core of each and every poem." Thomas Lux
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"Energy, intensity, and passion distinguish Charlie Smith's writing and he is equally at home in both poetry and fiction. The Palms, his best book of poems to date, fuses genres to give us fictional poems, poetic fictions. Of his generation in America, he is one of the most prodigiously gifted." Robert Phillips