Before and After: Poems

Before and After, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date--with poems so short and direct they hit home like a knife to the heart.

In Before and After, Smith effectively captures the intimate life of one family--in all its courage, deceit, misery, madness, love, revelation, and rage--and transforms it to record the life of the American family.

Author: Charlie Smith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/01/1996
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.45w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780393315554

About the Author
Smith, Charlie: - Charlie Smith is the author of eight previous poetry collections, eight novels, and a book of novellas. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, among other honors. He lives in New York City.