Hank
by Abraham Smith

Poetry.
ISBN: 9780979975585
15 October 2010
$16
OUT OF PRINT

“In an era of overpolished workshop poems and vague, bloodless experiment, Abraham Smith’s Hank risks a caterwauling quagmire both lyric and epic in scope, replete with 18 kinds of loneliness. A folk paean to Hank Williams, Sr., its excess is astonishing, its unpunctuated burble is propulsive, funny, unforgiving, and raw. Hank is an ‘elegy for gravel’ along the lost highway we’ve been hunting for. It belongs only to the future of American poetry.”

—Joshua Marie Wilkinson

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Abraham Smith hails from Ladysmith, Wisconsin. His poetry collections — via Action Books — are Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (2014); Hank (2010); and Whim Man Mammon (2007). His reading highlights include stints at the Academy of American Poets’ Rooftop Reading Series and Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Smith winters as Instructor of English at University of Alabama; Smith summers as farmhand (Farmall tractor rider) on Hawks’ Highland Farm.