{"product_id":"surgencies-paperback","title":"Surgencies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbraham Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of C.D. Wright, Natalie Diaz, and Tim Earley, \u003ci\u003eSurgencies\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the sounds and movements alive in rural northern Wisconsin. In each line Abraham Smith includes an excitement in answer to frog, coyote, eagle, barn swallow. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurgencies\u003c\/i\u003e is a poem; surge with urge; surgery with urgency. Line and sound emerge as emergency scribbled on grass. The message is green. The knife fight of light barnswallow flight. All zig and zag. And when the singing mouths of the peeping frogs open everyone flies and crawls in. Which is to say, Abraham Smith's eye is fast, but his ink is faster. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Surgencies\u003c\/i\u003e, he sings the sweet news that loving is prismatic pendulum. Smith seeks the right words for how frogsong sounds or feels, and with every lost left-hand turn, he maps the grand effort of trying to articulate the varied and the vast. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurgencies\u003c\/i\u003e, Abraham Smith's latest eco-audiological foray into our contemporary consciousness and rural locales, warns that \"kicked skulls roll funny.\" Prepare to get honey-skulled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Smith\u003c\/b\u003e hails from Ladysmith, Wisconsin. His recent poetry collections include\u003ci\u003e Insomniac Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e (Baobab Press, 2023) and\u003ci\u003e Dear Weirdo \u003c\/i\u003e(Propeller Books, 2022). Away from his desk, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns on the albums \u003ci\u003eIt Never Ends\u003c\/i\u003e (DBS\/Don Giovanni, 2023) and\u003ci\u003e Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (Dial Back Sound, 2020). Smith lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.8 x 4.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48395873681657,"sku":"9781936097647","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OleVWK5cO19781936097647.webp?v=1778619312","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/surgencies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}