Windy Day at Kabekona: New and Selected Prose Poems
AUTHOR
Thomas R. Smith
Windy Day at Kabekona samples four decades of Thomas R. Smith's devotion to the prose poem. Inspired in the late 1970s by the visionary prose poetry of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as American originators such as Robert Bly and Louis Jenkins, Smith has made the prose poem his own from his early surrealist-flavored efforts to later approaches emphasizing landscape and acutely-drawn character portraits. Behind all his varied practice, Smith writes that he has felt “the salutory, restless pressure” of his models, pushing him to meet the high bar set by their example. Windy Day at Kabekona showcases as never before the forty-year arc of his exploration of the enlivening possibilities of the contemporary prose poem.
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Thomas R. Smith is an internationally published poet, essayist, editor, and teacher living in western Wisconsin. He worked as Robert Bly’s personal assistant from 1990 until the time of Bly’s death in 2022. He has edited three earlier books on Bly’s work, Walking Swiftly, Robert Bly in This World (with James P. Lenfestey), and Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer. His ten poetry collections include, most recently, Windy Day at Kabekona: New and Selected Prose Poems, Storm Island, and Medicine Year. He has also published a prose work, Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival. He teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and posts poems and essays at www.thomasrsmithpoet.com.
Thomas R. Smith is an internationally published poet, essayist, editor, and teacher living in western Wisconsin. He worked as Robert Bly’s personal assistant from 1990 until the time of Bly’s death in 2022. He has edited three earlier books on Bly’s work, Walking Swiftly, Robert Bly in This World (with James P. Lenfestey), and Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer. His ten poetry collections include, most recently, Windy Day at Kabekona: New and Selected Prose Poems, Storm Island, and Medicine Year. He has also published a prose work, Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival. He teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and posts poems and essays at www.thomasrsmithpoet.com.