Shaking Music from the Angry Air

<p>In <em>Shaking Music from the Angry Air</em> Michael Dwayne Smith keeps poems close to their source: mortality wonder and an infinite appetite for love. Frank and unpretentious flinty even brash these poems sling us straight into the American southwest world of a boy-to-man quest through cities coasts and deserts. Smith's self-revelatory ravenous duende-filled personas saddled by the origin story of an alcoholic home break loose in escapades riddled with coyotes deaths horses lovers and ravens accrued as a thoughtful sometimes humorous exploration of life both sacred and profane. Bracingly candid and inventive gracefully elegiac tough passionate Smith traverses the landscape of the spirit from the wailing of a dead junkie to a greening mountain of soft regret to the moon-bright drunken dancing of his working-class genesis. This dazzling collection will take the reader on a bareback ride into a raucous world of poetry to be consumed by haunting delights truths unglimpsed sorrows known and ultimately a reconciliation of hope and despair.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>