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1. Lucky Seven (Wesleyan Poetry)
   

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2. Stopping on the Edge to Wave (Wesleyan Poetry)
   

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3. Earthshine (Wesleyan Poetry)
   

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4. Against the Meanwhile
   

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5. Roll Call of Mirrors: Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation)
   

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6. National Cold Storage Company: New and Selected Poems
   

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7. In Your Own Sweet Time (Wesleyan Poetry)
   

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8. Selected and Last Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)
   

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9. Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan Poetry)
   

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10. The Folded Heart
    

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11. The Black Riviera (Wesleyan Poetry)
    

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12. Splitting and Binding (Wesleyan Poetry)
    

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13. The Erotic Light of Gardens (Wesleyan Poetry)
    

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14. Walking in Stone (Wesleyan New Poets)
    

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15. The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation)
    

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16. From the Country of Nevermore: Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation S.)
    

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17. What Madness Brought Me Here: New and Selected Poems, 1968-88 (Wesleyan Poetry S.)
    

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18. Commonwealth of Wings: an Ornithologial Biography Based on the Life of John James (Wesleyan Poetry)
    

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19. Singularities (Wesleyan Poetry S.)
    

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20. Destroying Angel (Wesleyan New Poets)
    

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21. Shadowing the Ground (Wesleyan Poetry S.)
    

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22. Arreboles (Wesleyan New Poets S.)
    

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23. The Pilgrim Among Us (Wesleyan Poetry S.)
    

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24. Corridor: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry S.)
    

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25. 2 Guys on Holy Land (Wesleyan Poetry S.)
    

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Average customer rating: All-around excellent piece of work.

Lucky Seven (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Jordan Smith Manufacturer: Wesleyan University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback 20th Century | Poetry | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Poetry | United States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books Anthologies | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books General | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books United States | Single Authors | Poetry | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books ASIN: 0819511420

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Customer Reviews:

All-around excellent piece of work........2002-05-14

Jordan Smith's second book of poems is a fine one. On the ashcan-to-academic scale once proposed (with tongue only half in cheek) by an editorial wag at a small-press magazine, Smith falls solidly within the realm of academia, yet his poems contain one quality that is markedly absent from the majority of academic poets: accessibility. Perhaps more than any poet since T. S. Eliot, Jordan Smith combines the elevation of language that marks poetry with both the erudition that distinguishes the "academic" poet and the plain speaking that makes the subjects upon which he writes understandable to the guy on the street. This isn't poetry that requires, or even begs, deep study to get at the meanings therein. There are, of course, many layers beneath for those who want to find them. But it's possible to enjoy the work of Jordan Smith simply because it is.

Note that this technique is tried by many an aspiring poet, and in most cases it results in spectacularly bad failures. (Ah, the world wide web. Stop by a few poetry sites at random, or better yet personal web pages where the aspiring unpublished have posted the best of their high-school angst. It shouldn't take you long to see what I'm getting at.) Somehow, somewhere along the way, it seems most poets are either captured by the University system and molded into the basic academic or captured by the University system and rebel (i.e., molded into the basic ashcan). Somehow, Smith managed to tread the whole line without being molded either way, and he fooled so many people into thinking he had been that he landed a book at one of the premier academic presses. Good for you, Jordan Smith, and may you be the beginning of a renaissance of erudite poetry that the average Joe can understand. ****

Books:

1. Lucky Seven (Wesleyan Poetry)
2. Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan Poetry)
3. The Couple
4. Satan Says (Pitt Poetry S.)
5. The Little Space: Poems New and Selected, 1968-98 (Pitt Poetry S.)
6. Two Chinese Poets: Vignettes of Han Life and Thought
7. Antologia Poetica
8. El Amor y La Pasion
9. Poesia de Pablo Neruda
10. Entre Rios al Sur

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