{"product_id":"dale-martin-smith","title":"Dale Martin Smith","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eBio\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003eLinks\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDale Martin Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Garland, Texas, in 1967, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, and lived in the Republic of Yemen as a Peace Corps volunteer before moving to San Francisco to study poetry at the New College of California (MA, 1996). Smith published \u003ci\u003eMike \u0026amp; Dale’s Younger Poets \u003c\/i\u003ein San Francisco and, with Hoa Nguyen, edited the little magazine and book imprint \u003ci\u003eSkanky Possum \u003c\/i\u003efrom their home in Austin. To support the press, Smith worked a series of day jobs, wrote regularly for newspapers, and began teaching for a local community college before completing a doctorate in English at UT Austin in 2011. Smith maintained close ties with an intergenerational group of poets, published poetry, reviews, and essays in small press publications throughout North America, and with Nguyen facilitated a community of poets and artists, hosting readings and events for luminaries like Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, and Eileen Myles. He is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Size of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(knife|fork|book, 2024), longlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize;\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlying Red Horse \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(Talonbooks, 2021);\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003ci\u003eSlow Poetry in America \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(Cuneiform Press, 2014); \u003ci\u003eSusquehanna \u003c\/i\u003e(Punch Press, 2008), \u003ci\u003eBlack Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(effing press, 2007); and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Rambler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Thorp Springs, 2000). In 2011, he moved to Canada to teach at Toronto Metropolitan University. In addition to his poetry, Smith has drawn attention to twentieth and twenty-first century poets through critical and editorial contributions in \u003ci\u003ePoets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(University of Alabama Press, 2012) and three edited editions: \u003ci\u003eThat Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(University of New Mexico Press, 2025), \u003ci\u003eAn Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson\u003c\/i\u003e (University of New Mexico Press, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eImagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson\u003c\/i\u003e (University of New Mexico Press, 2017). His essays and poetry have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, The Walrus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJacket Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Toronto, Ontario.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Photo credit: Hoa Nguyen)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWith a kind of clipped historical shorthand, the use of the fragment in \u003ci\u003eThe Size of Paradise \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes a supercharged lyrical force that is also sprung with time. The momentum of this capacious book-length sequence keeps turning outward as it investigates an inward subjectivity, not all together Dale Smith per se, but maybe a collective interiority where we find, “Dead things collect in words.” And more importantly we discover “There will be love as memory.” Smith has written a high-stakes recounting of time and experience expanding the world we live within and that lives within us. This book is out of doors. I love it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Gizzi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn lines of great lyric discernment with an eye to atrocities of the past in the present, Dale Smith reimagines the song form as our consummate equipment for living. Flying Red Horse confirms his breathtaking artistry that – insofar as any time of innocence is over – holds at once a place, an exhortation, a persevering, a reverie, a promise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e– \u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Tejada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Dale Martin Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51225086951728,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/files\/DMSweb.jpg?v=1774559963","url":"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/dale-martin-smith","provider":"Wave Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}