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��ounds The Living Make is a deeply satisfying collection of poems.�D. James Smith combines the narrator�� art with a lyric poet�� intense and highly charged sense of setting and
language.�Whether exploring the labyrinth of memory or the mystery of ��he other,��here are poems that have the edge and authority of fiercely honed truths.���-Peter Everwine
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��. James Smith�� poems derive, or rather arrive, from the physical world��reaths and glimmers that we will recognize, but with images and language that will transport the reader
elsewhere.�These poems are intensely felt and beautifully written with surprising layers of complexity that are incantatory and in touch with the sacred.���-Gary Short
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