Bøger af Jared Smith

Jared Smith's poetry has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in this country, Canada, Mexico, the U.K., and China. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Home Planet News; The New York Quarterly; The Pedestal Magazine; and Turtle Island Quarterly, as well as on the Boards of literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, and Colorado. He is listed in The Colorado Encyclopedia; Poets & Writers; Colorado Poets Center; Who's Who in America; and other reference sources. He holds a Master's degree in Literature from New York University, and studied under The Great Books Program at St. John's College. He has taught at New York University and LaGuardia Community College (CCNY,) and worked as Director of Research and Education at an international laboratory, as Special Advisor to Argonne National Laboratory, and as an advisor to several White House Commissions under President William Clinton. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Shadows Within the Roaring Fork extends the range and enriches the substance of Jared Smith's visionary poetry. While many American poets register their personal psychic stresses by embracing fragmentation, discontinuity, and easy ironies, Smith's approach is coherent, wide-ranging, unabashedly direct, and fiercely humane. Like Blake, Whitman, Jeffers, and Thomas McGrath, Jared Smith refuses to speak just for himself: in these poems, the personal and the transpersonal form a kind of confluence, each stream joining and energizing the other. This is necessary poetry-the kind that offers readers the gift of realizing they are necessary as well.- Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet LaureateJared Smith has long been one of the chief torchbearers of American poetry, navigating a variety of social, political, and existential themes, and consistently via a voice that is uniquely his.- John Amen, Editor and Publisher of The Pedestal MagazineJared Smith's dazzling poetry brings to mind one word above all: generosity. Generosity of the human spirit and mind, of the word, and of the connectedness that binds human to human, human to nature, and nature to the larger universe. As he puts it: '"It is just these littlest things now / that carry light across the universe / and make life of it. You know." We know, but we also urgently need the poet to remind us, now more than ever. Our country, our language, and our globe are enriched by this vibrant, powerful, unflinching poet. - Eleanor Goodman, Translator of Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry

This magnificent volume of poetry-as-witness lifts up and dignifies the life we hold in common, illuminating that which is largely hidden within both the personal impulses and impersonal systems that drive and constrain us. The propulsive, elevating, and varied poems build upon each other toward an epic revelation of how our pride and dependence on technological growth blinds us with its short term gains. The resulting vision is one of dark and churning machinery within which everything is connected, the world becoming a vast fabric woven of passions and failures, of lights and shadows, exploration and exploitation leading to war and pandemic. There is individual freedom and survival to be found, but it is in finding the light within each individual's hard-won experience and compassion and understanding the spheres of which we are a part.

Jared Smith is the author of 14 books of poetry, 2 CDs,and stage productions in New York and Chicago. He hasserved on the Editorial Boards of Home Planet News, TheNew York Quarterly, Turtle Island Quarterly, and ThePedestal Magazine, as well as on the Board of Directorsof literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, andColorado. Jared has taught at New York University, LaGuardia Community College, and Illinois Institute ofTechnology. He has also worked as Vice President of aconsulting company, Associate Director of Educationand Applied Technology Research at Institute of GasTechnology; Special Advisor to Argonne NationalLaboratory; and as a technical advisor to The White Houseunder President Clinton. He lives in Colorado, where hespends much of his time in a rustic log cabin in RooseveltNational Forest.

This amazing collaboration between two of Colorado's finest poets will hit you where you live.