I Am Your Lifeguard
New and Selected Poems
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2026
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
9781324118176 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
9781324118176 (ISBN)
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“For pure, raw power of language, nobody in his generation comes close to Charlie Smith” (David Bottoms).
Drawing on nine previous collections and including nearly fifty new poems, Charlie Smith’s I Am Your Lifeguard marks the return of one of our most honest and unorthodox poets. The poems in this collection expose jagged truths: some are love letters; some focus our attention on beauty we may have otherwise missed, stepped over or cast aside; some tell us secrets we may want to carry in a locket; some are x-ray readings of our hearts; some are laugh-out-loud funny; some are quiet revelations. Each one is a prism through which Smith refracts and reflects the experience of consciousness, such as “No Nonsense,” in which he writes that “I came / away from myself / unstuck / and a sort of translucent orderliness / like a small herd of gazelles / entered my mind.” The cascade of imagery, observation, and revelation that characterizes Smith’s work imbues the collection with an expansive, radical compassion. It “remind[s] us . . . we don’t really know what beauty is until we’ve looked hard at the horror that throws beauty into bright relief” (David Kirby, New York Times Book Review).
I Am Your Lifeguard is prophetic and prescient, exquisitely descriptive of what it means to be human, and astonishingly attentive to beauty found even in the most derelict places. This collection is a stunning retrospective from an award-winning writer of “scalding aortal brilliance” (New York Times Book Review).
Drawing on nine previous collections and including nearly fifty new poems, Charlie Smith’s I Am Your Lifeguard marks the return of one of our most honest and unorthodox poets. The poems in this collection expose jagged truths: some are love letters; some focus our attention on beauty we may have otherwise missed, stepped over or cast aside; some tell us secrets we may want to carry in a locket; some are x-ray readings of our hearts; some are laugh-out-loud funny; some are quiet revelations. Each one is a prism through which Smith refracts and reflects the experience of consciousness, such as “No Nonsense,” in which he writes that “I came / away from myself / unstuck / and a sort of translucent orderliness / like a small herd of gazelles / entered my mind.” The cascade of imagery, observation, and revelation that characterizes Smith’s work imbues the collection with an expansive, radical compassion. It “remind[s] us . . . we don’t really know what beauty is until we’ve looked hard at the horror that throws beauty into bright relief” (David Kirby, New York Times Book Review).
I Am Your Lifeguard is prophetic and prescient, exquisitely descriptive of what it means to be human, and astonishingly attentive to beauty found even in the most derelict places. This collection is a stunning retrospective from an award-winning writer of “scalding aortal brilliance” (New York Times Book Review).
Charlie Smith is the author of nine previous poetry collections, eight novels, and a book of novellas. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, among other honors. He lives in New York City.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781324118176 / 9781324118176 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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