The Humility of the Brutes

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Ron Smith ISBN: 9780807166581
Publisher: LSU Press Publication: August 14, 2017
Imprint: LSU Press Language: English
Author: Ron Smith
ISBN: 9780807166581
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication: August 14, 2017
Imprint: LSU Press
Language: English

The title of Ron Smith’s new collection comes from Yeats’s observation that creators “must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes.” The poems in The Humility of the Brutes move beyond Yeats’s journey, using precise language and memorable phrasing to push through skepticism and guide us toward the mystical as we struggle to understand our past and our present.

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The title of Ron Smith’s new collection comes from Yeats’s observation that creators “must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes.” The poems in The Humility of the Brutes move beyond Yeats’s journey, using precise language and memorable phrasing to push through skepticism and guide us toward the mystical as we struggle to understand our past and our present.

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