"Searching with deft imagination for a way to transform betrayal and loss to create a world from 'beauty's pale soot,' Katherine Smith astounds by the incredible range in Argument by Design. Indeed, it is the design, the structure of the Odyssey, ranging from a dreamy European world defined by the likes of Pessoa, Goethe, Vermeer, and the crusaders to a more realistic America of the Smokey Mountains, Pet Smart, and Home Depot. Like the great Romantic poets, she understands that all successes are provisonal and qualified, that the poet's search is therefore a search for the 'weight of possibility.' In the end, her imaginative vision reveals a wisdom all too rare, a way to create, as she does in this terrific new book with a simple pear, 'a sweetness I fold into me like a faint green star.'"
—Richard Jackson

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This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 19 January, 2008.