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Feb.26.2011
This is the 30 minute DVD docudrama of James Wright's Ohio done by Larry Smith and Tom Koba. It presents the poet through statements, interviews with fellow poets and his two wives, and uses images and sounds from his Ohio hometown, Martins Ferry, Ohio. Done with a grant from the Ohio Humanities...
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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.
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Sep.25.2010
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...
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Feb.06.2010
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...
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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...
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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.
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May.19.2009
Prose-poem portraits by Jennifer Burd and photographs by Lad Strayer of moments and individuals from the Daily Bread of Lenawee Soup Kitchen (Adrian, MI) and local areas.
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Mar.15.2009
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.
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Feb.26.2009
100 poems by Buddhist monk Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) from his Kanshi (journal) poems. Revered worldwide for his simplicity, wit, and carefree spirit, Ryokan is presented here in original Chinese, Japanese, and in these fine translations by poets Mei Hui Liu Huang and Larry Smith. Their previous...
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Feb.11.2009
Novella set in industrial Lorain, Ohio, along with short stories set in industrial Ohio Valley and four works of creative nonfiction.
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