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William Jay Smith

Born

in Winnfield, Louisiana, The United States

April 22, 1918

Died

August 18, 2015

Genre

Poetry

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William Jay Smith was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 1,301 ratings · 149 reviews · 132 distinct works

	Ho for a Hat 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spectra Hoax 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense by William Jay Smith, Fernando Krahn (Illustrations) 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Is My Heart: Love Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds and Beasts by William Jay Smith, Jacques Hnizdovsky (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems From France by William Jay Smith, Roger Duvoisin (Illustrator ) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams by William Jay Smith, Suzanne Marrs (Foreword) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Army Brat: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“[The Toaster]
A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red
sits at my elbow and toasts my bread.
I hand him fat slices, then one by one
he hands them back when he sees they are done.”
― William Jay Smith

tags: anthromorphism, toaster

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“The Girl in the Black Raincoat"

Thinking of you this evening,
I think of mystery;
I think of umbrellas of crystal
Shading a cinnamon sea;
I think of swallow-tailed shadows
Enveloping history;
And the past becomes the future,
And the present is yet to be;
And life is a rain-swept mirror
Through which perpetually
A girl with bright hair flowing,
Dappled dark coat blowing,
Into the unknown, knowing
Walks with me.”
― William Jay Smith, The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997

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