Lamp of the Body AUTH-9536702 ISBN13: 9781681790848

ISBN13: 9781681790848

Tony Award nominee)

during the country's last great military campaign against its greatest rival

Sarah Shaw

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Lamp of the Body AUTH-9536702 ISBN13: 9781681790848Here in Maggie Smith's first book we encounter a voice that is spare, confident, and precise. Her images click into place, and the movement of each poem is deft, muscular, taut. These are poems we trust, poems that ask hard questions while at the same time convincing us of the magic in the world. Smith's voice is reserved, yet she carries her world forward in her teeth, so to speak. There's wisdom and acceptance in many of the poems, coupled with a