Smote

Smote

<div><p>"<i>Smote </i>is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen Butler</P><p><i>I release you like the crank-addled truck driver<br>releases his cargo at the midnight dock<br>until the warehouse is one in a trail<br>of crumbs, little light left on behind him. </i></P><p><b>James Kimbrell </b>is the author of <i>The Gatehouse Heaven </i>and <i>My Psychic</i>, and the co-translator of <i>Three Poets of Modern Korea</i>. He been the recipient of the Discovery/<i>The Nation </i>Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.</div>