Poetry. Lytton Smith's MY RADAR DATA KNOWS ITS THING, winner of the 2017 Foundlings Press Artist Residency and Chapbook Contest, is a deeply sensitive, wide-ranging, and lyrical exploration of human connection, technology, proximity, the past in the present, and the natural environment. With each poem that begins with his namesake's classic line, Lytton Smith's chapbook tests the limits of language just as it tests the limits of human relationships, the poet Anthony Caleshu writes. Words hold us together even when we're ...
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Poetry. Lytton Smith's MY RADAR DATA KNOWS ITS THING, winner of the 2017 Foundlings Press Artist Residency and Chapbook Contest, is a deeply sensitive, wide-ranging, and lyrical exploration of human connection, technology, proximity, the past in the present, and the natural environment. With each poem that begins with his namesake's classic line, Lytton Smith's chapbook tests the limits of language just as it tests the limits of human relationships, the poet Anthony Caleshu writes. Words hold us together even when we're questioning their validity. Our linguistic (and so our human) scale has just gotten bigger and bolder. The book features illustrations and conceptual design from Philadelphia-based artist Stephen Fitzmaurice.
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