The title of Dan Smart’s The Flowers of Nonchalance suggests that what grows from easeful moments can blossom beautifully. As Smart writes: “With so much out of reach / Now, I reach / For simplicity.” Smart makes the ordinary extraordinary in this fabulous collection, situating himself in dialogue with his poetic forebears, including Frost, Merwin, Issa, and others. And as readers we are grateful that such a perceptive poet is “here now / to say it.
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The Flowers of Nonchalance by Dan Smart
The title of Dan Smart’s The Flowers of Nonchalance suggests that what grows from easeful moments can blossom beautifully. As Smart writes: “With so much out of reach / Now, I reach / For simplicity.” Smart makes the ordinary extraordinary in this fabulous collection, situating himself in dialogue with his poetic forebears, including Frost, Merwin, Issa, and others. And as readers we are grateful that such a perceptive poet is “here now / to say it.