Smote

" Smote

is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace.""—Robert Olen Butler I release you like the crank-addled truck driverreleases his cargo at the midnight dockuntil the warehouse is one in a trailof crumbs, little light left on behind him.

James Kimbrell

is the author of

The Gatehouse Heaven

and

My Psychic , and the co-translator of

Three Poets of Modern Korea . He been the recipient of the Discovery/ The Nation

Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.