Dale Smith : Slow Poetry in America

In Slow Poetry in America, Dale Smith pursues an attitude and a world-view in which the self is experienced as a series of screens. Personal memory vanishes into temporal experiences of culture, and narrative coheres in a language that attempts to track time, the apprehension of what it means to be alive now.

Dale Martin Smith is a poet, editor, literary scholar, and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of the poetry collections The Size of Paradise (knife|fork|book, 2024), a finalist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize; Flying Red Horse (Talonbooks 2021); Slow Poetry in America (Cuneiform Press, 2014); Black Stone (effing press, 2007); and American Rambler (Thorp Springs, 2000). With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, from 1998 to 2004.

PAPERBACK. 4.5x6 inches. 192 pages. 2014.