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Ken Smith's latest volume, Wild Root, contains in that beautifully oxymoronic title the essence of his poetics; a wandering across familiar and unfamiliar boundaries in search of homes and identities. For 30 years he has written a rambling, peregrinatory poetry, nudging at formal restraint, letting thought and character slide uncertainly within and between pieces, not least in the explorations of his nomadic alter ego, Eddie, who occupies the first, North American, section of this new collection.
It is more pertinent than ever in Wild Root, because so many of the pieces focus on events and friends in post-communist eastern Europe, and Hungary. To some extent, all of his poems are the sort of communications he describes in "Heaven's Dust"--postcards from nowhere, uncertain of recipient or receipt;
"But there are no postcards. No stamps, no post office, And in any case it would never reach you Bearing its message Oh I love you From the collapsing country Across the shifting borders."The Eastern European pieces are particularly effective, and resemble in their deadpan irony the style we are familiar with from translations of that region's poets. "The Secret Police" brilliantly inverts the politics of oppression in its mock defence ("So let's hear it for the secret police, / a much misunderstood minority? / they too have a culture uniquely their own") and proposes the spooks be granted their own state. This is a warm, wide-ranging, angry and humane book from a passionate and political poet.--Robert Potts
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Ken Smith''s wanderings take him further and further out, among the wastelands of Eastern Europe after Co mmunism, and again to North America, where his as-if counter part Eddie lives his imaginary lives. '
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