Larry R. Smith's Books
Jun.20.2012
Poems to bring you peace...Here are poems as meditations, meditations as poems, all in the zen spirit of Smith.
A March Street Press Book limited edition / Now available from the Laughing Buddha Series at Bottom Dog Press
“There’s a Buddha in Larry Smith’s Ohio garden. Peaceful, watchful and calm. Glide into these beautiful new poems like a bee, each one a petal of a...
Apr.06.2012
Larry Smith was the general editor on this book edited by AllenFrost for Bottom Dog Press. He also wrote the Foreword and compiled the biographies for the correspondents. The book includes the selected correspondence of Kenneth Patchen with letters from and to:
Harvey Breit - E.E. Cummings - James T. Farrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - James Laughlin- Henry Miller - Miriam Patchen...
Oct.07.2011
“Larry Smith's The Free Farm is both a novel and a romance about the hard truth of family and the ways we discover the nature of who we are by whom and what we love. Written in a strong, sensitive but never sentimentalizing voice, Smith has penned a kind of spiritual being-of-age novel, while still providing a clear-eyed look at a turbulent, fascinating era of...
Feb.17.2011
100 poems by this master of the love poem, rebel poet Kenneth Patchen. Larry Smith provides a long biographic story of the lives of Kenneth and Miriam Patchen in "When the Wreath Touches the Heart." This is a revised, re-issue of this classic.
Dec.12.2010
This is in the Arcadia Publishing series of profiles of small towns in America, their Images of America series. Over 200 photos with detailed captions and chapter introductions tell the story of the industrial, working-class town of Mingo Junction, Ohio on the Ohio River. The book was done by Larry Smith and Guy Mason as co-authors and co-editors. Photos and history were supplied...
Sep.29.2010
Here is a story of Chinese poet Tu Fu coming to America and living on the streets of Cleveland.By channeling Tu Fu into our times, poet, novelist, translator Larry Smith tells two stories in one. This is Smith's eighth book of poems.60 pages, $9.
Tu Fu Comes to America is a compelling verse novel depicting the poignant realities of working immigrants. Smith’s spare, sturdy lines...
Mar.03.2010
Here are some of the best Midwest poets from the 25 years of publication by Bottom Dog Press. 65 poets from 91 books. 156 pages...$16.00...Out in March. Edited by Laura Smith, Allen Frost, with senior editor Larry Smith. *From the Introduction by Laura Smith: "Reading through this collection of poems one senses the evolution of the essence of this prolific, independent...
Aug.18.2009
A family saga set in the green heartlands of Ohio's Appalachia.
"In this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and sorrows, their sins and their nobility....Such regional fiction has always been about people: their connections with one another, their home place, their struggles to survive and to prosper. It's all here, set, in...
Jun.25.2009
Translations of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan by Larry Smith who reads them here with flute from Monte Page. Includes 15 page book and audio CD.
Nov.11.2008
Poetry Anthology co-edited with Ann Smith and Philip Metres
100 poems from older and contemporary poets envisioning a world of peace. Poems of Witness & Elegy,Exhortation & Action,Reconciliation, Shared Humanity,Wildness & Home,Ritual & Vigil, Meditation & Prayer.
Precedents: Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, Cavafy, Millay, Patchen, Rexroth, Shapiro,...
Oct.10.2007
Smith provides the biographical essay and basic chronology of the times.Other essays are by Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, T.L. Kryss, rjs, Karl Young, Allen Frost, Joel Lipman, Kent Taylor, Mark Kuhar, Ingrid Swanberg, , Russell Salamon, John Jacob, Douglas Manson, Michael Basinski, Jim Lang, and others
d.a.levy & the mimeograph revolution tells the story of one man's vision...
Oct.10.2007
A collection of fiction monologues covering young to old in the tradiiton of Sherwood Anderson short stories as portraits of the lives of characters around him. Smith's third book of ficiton and his first with Bird Dog Publishing.
Jun.06.2006
From back cover: "A River Remains embodies the waterway of its title: in these poems the world is at once evanescent and permantent, always changing, yet always there. A collection of large scope built mostly from brief lyrics, narratives and meditations, it stands as the most compelling work from an already distinguised career."
Oct.10.2005
"Milldust and Roses is a beautiful tapestry, the substance of which describes an Ohio Valley working-class family from the mid-century onward....The book is formatted like a family albun with wonderful prose snapshots illustrating the town, his growing family, his wife and himself." -Holly Beye
May.04.2003
A selection of the best poems by Chinese Buddhist poet Wang Wei and Japan's Taigu Ryokan read by the translator Larry Smith with flute music by Monte Page. The CD includes a 16 page booklet of the poems in translation. It's a meditative experience of the words, vision, and music of these fine poets.
On The Free Farm: A Novel...Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.' ”
—Laura Treacy Bentley
About Larry
I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings. I then...
Connections
Causes Larry Smith Supports
peace and justice, meditation
Larry’s Favorite Books
Walden, Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems