Touché

by Rod Smith

With a mix of political commentary and lyricism in a range of forms, Touché evokes an adrenaline rush as the reader is swept up into Rod Smith's unique blend of humor.

I am no I I slight

I've taught myself to unwrite
& then wreathed, saturate, blank
the severed glinting worlds rebelieve
or they all access overall not-so, a not-so
lucid, a lucid one, the squirrels that I live there
^.^ ~ alright then, alright mr squirrel there, yep.

Rod Smith edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. Smith co-edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, (University of California Press, 2014).

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2015

Reviews

[Arianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I Loved the weirdness but sometimes it's so far removed of my realm of mysteries that I either feel like I don't get it creatively or that it wasn't meant to be understood.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

You've got to love a book that dares to be this ridiculous. Repeating the same phrases over and over and over again for page after page, my friend and I couldn't keep from laughing at the reading, and the poet didn't seem to mind at all.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review of "Touché" appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of The Iowa Review .