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Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith's new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive organic shapes. The book's forty-three pieces gather themselves into three flights that hover above and touch down among the politics of memory and the psychology of beauty. With inspiration drawn from memoir, myth, history, fiction, and the visual arts, That Beauty in the Trees presents, ponders, and sometimes judges the actions, fates, and aesthetics of not only the author's friends and family but also legendary and historical figures, including Achilles, Catullus, George Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, H.D., Ezra Pound, and many more.
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"Whether in the shadow of the towers' forever falling, the confounding Deep South, or his young sharpshooter father drawing straws on Guadalcanal, Ron Smith encounters the sublime in memory, the wry, and the profane in his new collection."
Linda Parsons
"Smith grapples with history as it verges into myth, in poems that rerender the recent and distant past with rigor and vision."
David Groff
"That Beauty in the Trees ignites one's passions again and again with inspired plainsong exploding abruptly into poetry. Smith's range sprawls over many visions and testimonies of antiquity, memory, and moral declaration."
Ron Powers
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- SeriesSouthern Messenger Poets