Demo
Poems
8 May 2020
Description
A dazzling volume that gushes with the rhythms of life and language, from award-winning poet Charlie Smith.
Moving through shades of darkness and light, Charlie Smith captures a refracted view of a disturbed, disintegrating world. Demo explores landscapes both natural and urban, probing the spaces where the two overlap. Its narrator is at once wanderer and witness, living among streets where flowers are covered with dust and smells of Mexican food and Chinese cooking fill the air. The poet finds a resurgence of life in the ruins, reminding us once again “that we don’t really know what beauty is until we’ve looked hard at the horror that throws beauty into bright relief” (The New York Times). In Demo, Smith conveys a kinetic expression of hope that transcends human vagaries and machinations.
Also By: Charlie Smith 
Word Comix: Poems
E Book, 2014
“Smith writes with a scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream.”—New York Times Book Review
Jump Soul: New and Selected Poems
E Book, 2014
A stunning collection from a poet who “writes with a scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream” (New York Times Book Review).
Jump Soul: New and Selected Poems
Hardback, 2014
A stunning collection from a poet who “writes with a scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream” (New York Times Book Review).
Word Comix: Poems
Paperback, 2010
“Smith writes with a scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream.”—New York Times Book Review
Word Comix: Poems
Hardback, 2008
Charlie Smith's "shimmering energy" (Mary Oliver) pushes against the barriers of imagination and the American language.
