Cuba Night (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dave Smith
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: History, Spiders, Racism, Love or romance, Suicide, South or Southerners, Music or musicians, Identity, Drama or dramatists, Birds, Clay, Missiles
For fifteen years, beginning in 1970, Dave Smith turned out poems, volumes of poems, at a startling pace. Criticism and fiction, too—but mostly poems. It was already a lifetime’s work, a significant corpus with a special signature. If anyone seemed a candidate for burnout, Dave Smith so seemed. Cuba Night appears five years after Smith’s last volume, The Roundhouse Voices: New and Selected Poems, and that volume, as the subtitle indicates, was largely a retrospective. If Smith has slowed down, his art has not wavered. In this new volume it is as individual, powerful,...
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