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The Smoke of Horses - BOA Editions, Ltd.

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The Smoke of Horses

By: Charles Rafferty

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In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer.

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My glances  keep hitting her like arrows tipped with moths, marking her with dust she has merely to brush away.

Praise for The Smoke of Horses

Charles Rafferty has given the prose poem a new identity. Poem after poem, in his wonderful The Smoke of Horses, is lucidly mysterious. Its as if Charles Simic got together with Robert Hass to discuss a day in the life of, say, Rene Magritte or, better yet, Milton Avery. In other words, theres a wonderful intelligence at work here that becomes a sensibilty, a quality that normalizes the odd, the strange, and makes the life it depicts as surprising and as humorous as, well, life itself.—Stephen Dunn

One after another, always surprising, the transcendent short tales and meditations in Charles Raffertys The Smoke of Horses are sometimes lyrical and ecstatic, sometimes funny and self-deprecating, sometimes wistful, but always beautifully precise in their odd and individual depiction of our very human everyday life. The narrator may compare himself to a grackle, the grackles song to a rusty gate, and the reader takes wing along with him. A pleasure to read.—Lydia Davis

Publication Date: October 10, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-942683-47-6

© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2017

 

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