Aug 2014
have recently self-published a comprehensive selected work taken from the fourteen full-length, also self-published, collections of mine from years 2007-2014. the book has a title, the women you take from your brother, and is 351 pages. a PDF of the work will be sent to any making such a request of me at email bartonsmock@yahoo.com
link to the work is below, book preview is book entire:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/the-women-you-take-from-your-brother/hardcover/product-21758824.html
it includes work from the following publications-
the paper dolls have been cutting your hair
Grief Of Arm
Angel Scene
mating rituals of the responsibly poor
Ahistoric
Aggressive Kin
Hallelujah Lip-Synch
in the asylum we’d sun ourselves with angels
think ******* nothing on a farm machine
abandonesque
Stork Blood
town crier
We stole not the same bread
PLEA
sample poems:
lacuna
Ohio 1976 I was given a word. a helluva word. I went unborn. a word my mother swallowed. a troublesome word. nervosa sans pretext. my father slept until his sleep became self aware. he paced. then gave me his word. stood over me.
Ohio 2013 you ***** on my shadow in an abandoned building outside of which a pregnant woman bikes herself into a garage door and bloodies her nose between sound and horn.
the gospel
I lose the fat hero to thoughts of my own weight.
I make the bully too evil.
I shy from death
to be made
its lure.
I have a wife
board
what else
a train
to transport
the sadness
a *****
can’t.
my son
wonders
aloud
if all females
are mothers.
if animals, talk.
jesus on the cross
my sister is sometimes obese. she has mild heart attacks in cramped third floor apartments. she gets beaten by schoolmates who impersonate hospital staff. I am always going to see her it seems when she is in someone else’s bed. it is to this thought she has recently clung.
link to the work is below, book preview is book entire:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/the-women-you-take-from-your-brother/hardcover/product-21758824.html
it includes work from the following publications-
the paper dolls have been cutting your hair
Grief Of Arm
Angel Scene
mating rituals of the responsibly poor
Ahistoric
Aggressive Kin
Hallelujah Lip-Synch
in the asylum we’d sun ourselves with angels
think ******* nothing on a farm machine
abandonesque
Stork Blood
town crier
We stole not the same bread
PLEA
sample poems:
lacuna
Ohio 1976 I was given a word. a helluva word. I went unborn. a word my mother swallowed. a troublesome word. nervosa sans pretext. my father slept until his sleep became self aware. he paced. then gave me his word. stood over me.
Ohio 2013 you ***** on my shadow in an abandoned building outside of which a pregnant woman bikes herself into a garage door and bloodies her nose between sound and horn.
the gospel
I lose the fat hero to thoughts of my own weight.
I make the bully too evil.
I shy from death
to be made
its lure.
I have a wife
board
what else
a train
to transport
the sadness
a *****
can’t.
my son
wonders
aloud
if all females
are mothers.
if animals, talk.
jesus on the cross
my sister is sometimes obese. she has mild heart attacks in cramped third floor apartments. she gets beaten by schoolmates who impersonate hospital staff. I am always going to see her it seems when she is in someone else’s bed. it is to this thought she has recently clung.
