River Hymnal: Poems Volume 9 - Paperback

by Cody Smith (Author)

River Hymnal offers rivers as connective tissue binding Louisiana, Washington, and Florida together. Poems are set in all these locales, and their landscapes shape and contain different permeations of the poet's life and sensibilities. The book's themes of discovery and loss, progress and regress, future and past, are all rivers that the poems alchemize into a confluence of water that currents the poet continually around the next bend in his life and memory.

Author Biography

CODY SMITH is the author of Gulf: Poems (Texas Review Press) and Delta Summers (Yellow Flag Press). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He lives in central Florida with his wife and two children.