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POP SMOKE & PRAYPOP SMOKE & PRAY (book)

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Frank Barry Smith, now retired and living in Washington state, served as a combat medic in the Vietnam war. This collection of poetry--written mostly while in Vietnam--chronicles first and foremost the friendships made and lost during war time. "I have made friends and lost them / in ways more quickly than some / but less than others..." Smith writes in "THE MIDDLE," ironically the book's final poem. POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book of memory, a book of fear, a book of observation, a book of confusion and youth and a time that seemed to go at lightspeed while the long days still dragged into even longer nights; but, most importantly, POP SMOKE & PRAY is a book about love and its ability to remain and be found in the worst situations. Frank Barry Smith studied poetry under Philip Levine, Robert Mezey, and John Logan.

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STUPID BIRDSSTUPID BIRDS (book)

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Released under my imprint, TRANSMISSION PRESS (transmissionpress.blogspot.com), Stupid Birds is a collection of my chapbooks, long poems, and a few singular poems written between the years 2004 thru 2006. Table of Contents: Logan's Lyric (august 2004), ghosts spiders &dogs (september 2004), red apple falls (november 2004), Childish Poem or The Welcomed Beating (november 2004), this is affront you pig (january 2005), Where I Came When I Was Married (february 2005), into the fall (february 2005), NARCISSUS 2000 (march 2005), Much Like You Shark (august 2006).