Lamp of the Body Author:Maggie Smith In Lamp of the Body, Maggie Smith illuminates nothing less than the opportunities for and the possibilities of poetic utterance. Her themes?landscape, loss, and western myth?are richly classic; her language, sensuous and elegant. Primitive and visionary, exacting and unrestrained, these poems are in possession of a good strangeness, an awful nos... more »talgia that irrevocably transforms the now. --Kathy Fagan« less