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In this new expanded edition, here are poems as dramatic projections of the character and spirit of American author and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. In Smith's poems we get inside the mind and heart of Thoreau and see his life as his greatest work of art. One gains a deeper appreciation of Thoreau as person and as an enlightened spirit of America.

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These poems are crisp, lucid, exact. They keep one hand always in contact with the earth, the other on the skin....I am moved by all of them: the regard for work, for tools, for the turns of phrase, for the legacy of saying and skills. Scott Russell Sanders Smith finds a nourishing grace in simple familiar things. His deep intuitive poems--devotions really--shimmer with an openness to the natural world, a quality shared with poets Kenneth Rexroth, Lucien Stryk, and Oriental Zen masters. George Myers Jr. These poems are crisp, lucid, exact. They keep one hand always in contact with the earth, the other on the skin....I am moved by all of them: the regard for work, for tools, for the turns of phrase, for the legacy of sayings and skills.-Scott Russell Sanders // Smith finds a nourishing grace in simple familiar things. His deep intuitive poems--devotions really--shimmer with an openness to the natural world, a quality shared with poets Kenneth Rexroth, Lucien Stryk, and Oriental Zen masters. -George Myers Jr. Smith finds a nourishing grace in simple familiar things. His deep intuitive poems--devotions really--shimmer with an openness to the natural world, a quality shared with poets Kenneth Rexroth, Lucien Stryk, and Oriental Zen masters. -George Myers Jr.

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Larry Smith lives with his wife Ann in Huron, Ohio where he is professor emeritus of English and humanities from Firelands College of Bowling Green State University. He has studied at the Thoreau Institute and has written on the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau. He is the author of eight books of poetry, five books of fiction, and literary biographies of writers Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Smith is also writer-producer of two video programs on poets James Wright and Kenneth Patchen done with filmmaker Tom Koba. His own memoirs have appeared in Milldust and Roses (2005) and The Thick of Thin: Memoirs of a Working-Class Writer (2017). He and Mei Hui Huang are co-translators of Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountain? and The Kanshi Poems Taigu Ryokan (both from Bottom Dog Press). In 1999 he received the Ohioana Poetry Award for his contributions to poetry in Ohio. Smith is the director of Bottom Dog Press, an independent Ohio literary publisher for over 30 years.

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