Rod Smith
MUSIC OR HONESTY
by Rod Smith
"Rod Smith is submodernism’s first genius. He has been broadcasting from DC longer than Wolf Blitzer, meaning he has never left the central fact that poetry is politics. I love his ‘dissociadelic’ mid-Atlantic soul, which never makes us choose between truth and beauty. In his wild and amazing poems, honesty is music, listen."
- Peter Gizzi
PROTECTIVE IMMEDIACY
by Rod Smith
This is a sophisticated poetry whose pleasures come from sounds felt right in the mouth while reading silently. And from feeling, now and then, that one is exactly in among the gears of mind, however it works, what we don't know.
- Alice Notley