From Poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences "Via Appia" and "To Ithaca," Ron Smith \'s Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel.
Smith is the author of these poetry collections: Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery (1988, second edition 2020), Moon Road (2007), Its Ghostly Workshop (2013), and The Humility of the Brutes (2017)..
Christopher\'s School in Richmond, Virginia, where he has also been an adjunct associate professor at the University of Richmond.
He holds the George Squires Chair of Distinguished Teaching and serves as Writer-in-Residence at St.
About author(s): Ron Smith was Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2014 to 2016.
Many Poems examine the fear of meaninglessness, the griefs of separation and alienation, and the limits as well as the powers of language.
With skeptical reverence, the Poems hunger for and dramatize a search for immanence and transcendence.
A mind nurtured in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South drifts north and west and finally abroad, and sometimes into visionary, mysterious pasts.
Domestic Poems give way to Poems of pilgrimage and witness, to Poems of literary homage and metaphysical questioning.
From Poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences "Via Appia" and "To Ithaca," Ron Smith \'s Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel
