Down to Earth, by Crystal Simone Smith

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There’s such intimacy and such depth of feeling in Crystal Simone Smith’s remarkable book, Down to Earth that one could almost overlook the incredible formal rigor that also guides and holds these poems. Where a lesser poet would make an airless box, Smith uses her deep understanding of both human and poetic form to make a world. People live, love, and struggle within the formal confines of a brutal world that is also luminous beyond all our expectations. I aspire to Smith’s mastery of line and clarity of vision. In this book, the past is always rising up to meet us and remind us that the past really isn’t past at all. We are always making and remaking it. -Gaby Calvocoressi

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Longleaf Press (May 11, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 37 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1734398515
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1734398519

About This Author

Crystal Simone Smith is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Routes Home, Finishing Line Press (2013); Running Music, Longleaf Press (2014), and Down to Earth, Longleaf Press (2021). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, Nimrod, Barrow Street, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora, African American Review, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham, NC with her husband and two sons where she teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. She is the Managing Editor of Backbone Press.

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