© Dale Martin Smith, 2026, 22 pp.
“I’m swept up with emotion, having just read Figures of Speech: Wide Infinity—astonishing. The poems are still resonating by way of the ear—the music so hallucinatory, so precisely calibrated, the sequence given to resolve the incommensurability of the present technological warfare and genocide, the spectacle of environmental degradation, the uncertain relevance of poetry, music, art, but the impossibility of doing otherwise than to
“submerge melodic stress into hours” and “break inside the flat nonhuman / architectures that make it hard / to move outside flinching selfhood…”
…and the poems touch my heart—the language of bygone seasons, the perception of transience, and of mortality nearing, parenthood and filial tenderness, all things permeated with a magnitude of mourning.”
–Roberto Tejada, author of Carbonate of Copper.
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