'CLOUDBURST and CONSTELLATIONS' | poetry | ISBN 978 1 763825 956 | 66 pgs | Nov 2014 | $20.00 (within Australia)
Poignant and personal, these poems trace tender cartographies of
skin and kinship making drawn from genealogical topographies
that waver with grief in beautifully ‘concentric circles / of
unknowing.’ Smith pays close attention to the minutiae of life,
from ‘sunflecks’ that incur ‘a sharp intake of breath’ to histories
both natural and familial, especially in concurrence with
water-cycles both amniotic and migratory, telluric, oceanic,
and riverine. From Wales to the Caribbean, from Louisiana to
‘home’, this is a moving poetic portrait of places displaced, and
reunited, in distilled and sparkling form.
Shari Lynelle, also known as Shari Kocher, author of Foxstruck
and Other Collisions (Puncher & Wattmann)