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    Protective Immediacy
    Protective Immediacy
    Protective Immediacy
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    Protective Immediacy

    By Rod Smith

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    Poetry. "Rod Smith's PROTECTIVE IMMEDIACY is a wonderful book. It is also a worldly one."—Lyn Hejinian. "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. Rod Smith edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. He has taught at the The Iowa Writers' Workshop, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The Corcoran College of Art + Design, and George Mason University. Smith co-edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (University of California Press, 2014). 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoof Books
    Release dateJan 1, 1999
    ISBN9780937804780
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      Protective Immediacy - Rod Smith

      PROTECTIVE IMMEDIACY

      PROTECTIVE IMMEDIACY

      Rod Smith

      ROOF BOOKS

      NEW YORK

      Copyright © 1999, 2006 Rod Smith.

      Second Printing.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-937804-78-0

      ISBN-10: 0-937804-78-9

      Library of Congress Card Catalog No. 99-61352

      Book design & typography by Barbara Campbell

      Cover design by Deborah Thomas

      Cover photo: New York Public Library

      Versions of these poems have appeared in The Baffler, B City, Cathay, Explosive, The Germ, I Am A Child, The Impercipient, Lingo, New American Writing, Open 24 Hours, Philly Talks, Phoebe, Primary Writing, Tool: A Magazine. Some of these poems appeared in the Potes & Poets limited edition Protective Immediacy (1998). The Boy Poems was published as a chapbook by Buck Downs Books in 1994. A Grammar Manikin appeared as a special feature in Object#6.

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      Table of Contents

      The Boy Poems

      George, Rick, Boris, Harold #2, Woodward, Harold, Simon, Larry, Lucifer, Meredith, Vector, Bert, Mel, Bailey, Dutch, Edmond, Arthur, The Buddha, John Fitzgerald, & Aaron

      The Classics

      The Responsibility of Intellectuals

      The Sublime Object of Ideology

      The American Evasion of Philosophy

      The Prison Notebooks

      The Body in Pain

      The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

      Write Like Soap

      A Grammar Manikin

      Protective Immediacy

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